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Marco Polo and the encounter of east and west /
Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the "Far East" sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : East, west, and in-between / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
- Text, image, and contradiction in the Devisement dou monde / Debra Higgs Strickland
- Marco Polo's Le devisement dou monde and the tributary east / Sharon Kinoshita
- Marco Polo's Devisement dou monde as a narcissistic trauma / Marion Steinicke
- Currents and currency in Marco Polo's Devisement dou monde and The book of John Mandeville / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
- Plucking hairs from the great Cham's beard : Marco Polo, Jan de Langhe, and Sir John Mandeville / John Larner
- The world translated : Marco Polo's Le devisement dou monde, The book of Sir John Mandeville, and their medieval audiences / Suzanne M. Yeager
- Calvino's rewriting of Marco Polo : from the 1960 screenplay to Invisible cities / Martin McLaughlin
- From alterity to holism : cinematic depictions of Marco Polo and his Travels / Amilcare A. Iannucci and John Tulk
- The perils of dichotomous thinking : a case of ebb and flow rather than east and west / Susan Whitfield
- Marco Polo : meditations on intangible economy and vernacular imagination / Yunte Huang
- Marco Polo, Chinese cultural identity, and an alternative model of east-west encounter / Longxi Zhang.