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Book SynopsisReframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature.
Table of ContentsIn Memoriam Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Persistence of Philology: Language and Connectivity in the Mediterranean SUZANNE CONKLIN AKBARI Part One: Philology in the Mediterranean 2 Beyond Philology: Cross-Cultural Engagement in Literary History and Beyond SHARON KINOSHITA 3 Linguistic Difference, the Philology of Romance, and the Romance of Philology SIMON GAUNT 4 Forging New Paradigms: Towards a History of Islamo-Christian Civilization JOHN TOLAN 5 Reflections on Muslim Hebraism: Codex Vindobonensis Palatinus and al-Biqa'i WALID A. SALEH 6 "Mixing the East with the West": Cosmopolitan Philology in Richard Burton's Translations from Cam es PAULO LEMOS HORTA 7 Reading Backward: The 1001 Nights and Philological Practice KARLA MALLETTE Part Two: The Cosmopolitan Frontier: Andalusi Case Studies 8 Andalusi "Exceptionalism" ROSS BRANN 9 The Convivencia Wars: Decoding Historiography's Polemic with Philology RYAN SZPIECH 10 "In One of My Body's Gardens": Hearts in Transformation in Late Medieval Iberian Passion Devotions CYNTHIA ROBINSON 11 Arab Musical Influence on Medieval Europe: A Reassessment DWIGHT REYNOLDS 12 Sicilian Poets in Seville: Literary Affinities across Political Boundaries WILLIAM GRANARA 13 Vidal Benvenist's Efer ve-Dinah between Hebrew and Romance DAVID A. WACKS 14 The Shadow of Islam in Cervantes's "El Licenciado Vidriera" LEYLA ROUHI 15 "The Finest Flowering": Poetry, History, and Medieval Spain in the Twenty-First Century MAR A ROSA MENOCAL 16 Boustrophedon: Towards a Literary Theory of the Mediterranean KARLA MALLETTE Bibliography Contributors
