Representing difference in the medieval and modern orientalist romance / Amy Burge.
2016
PN811 .B87 2016eb
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Title
Representing difference in the medieval and modern orientalist romance / Amy Burge.
Author
Burge, Amy, 1985- author.
ISBN
9781137593566 (electronic book)
1137593563 (electronic book)
9781137601315
1137601310
9781137593689
1137593563 (electronic book)
9781137601315
1137601310
9781137593689
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New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (279 pages)
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PN811 .B87 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
840.09
Summary
"This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems. "-- Provided by publisher.
"The Orientalist romance, in the late medieval period and in modernity, is emblematic of popular attitudes towards the east. This book, which directly compares medieval and modern romances, offers detailed case studies on how these texts represent sameness and difference in gender, ethnicity, and religion"-- Provided by publisher.
"The Orientalist romance, in the late medieval period and in modernity, is emblematic of popular attitudes towards the east. This book, which directly compares medieval and modern romances, offers detailed case studies on how these texts represent sameness and difference in gender, ethnicity, and religion"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index.
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents
Romance in the East: An Introduction
1. Saracens and Sheikhs: Romance in Context
2. Geographies of Fantasy: Exploring the Romance East
3. "For you are a man and she is a maid": Gender and the East
4. 'Neither Fish Nor Fowl": Representing Difference, Fabricating Sameness
5. Romancing the Abduction Motif
Romance in the East: Conclusions.
1. Saracens and Sheikhs: Romance in Context
2. Geographies of Fantasy: Exploring the Romance East
3. "For you are a man and she is a maid": Gender and the East
4. 'Neither Fish Nor Fowl": Representing Difference, Fabricating Sameness
5. Romancing the Abduction Motif
Romance in the East: Conclusions.