Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She is author of Seeing through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory, editor of Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West, and medieval volume editor for The Norton Anthology of World Literature.
16 Ebooks von Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Suzanne Conklin Akbari: Idols in the East
Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has …
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€15.99
Suzanne Conklin Akbari: Idols in the East
Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has …
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€186.44
Suzanne Conklin Akbari & Jill Ross: The Ends of the Body
Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body’s productive capacity – whether expressed through the flesh’s materiality, or through its ro …
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€76.06
Suzanne Conklin Akbari & Jill Ross: Ends of the Body
Drawing on Arabic, English, French, Irish, Latin and Spanish sources, the essays share a focus on the body’s productive capacity – whether expressed through the flesh’s materiality, …
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€77.29
Suzanne Conklin Akbari & Karla Mallette: Sea of Languages
Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes …
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€77.13
Suzanne Conklin Akbari & Karla Mallette: Sea of Languages
Medieval European literature was once thought to have been isolationist in its nature, but recent scholarship has revealed the ways in which Spanish and Italian authors – including Cervantes …
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€77.98
Suzanne Conklin Akbari: Seeing Through the Veil
During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not …
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€46.53
Suzanne Conklin Akbari: Seeing Through the Veil
During the later Middle Ages, new optical theories were introduced that located the power of sight not in the seeing subject, but in the passive object of vision. This shift had a powerful impact not …
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€46.28
Suzanne Conklin Akbari & Amilcare Iannucci: 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 imaginatio …
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€92.07
Suzanne Conklin Akbari & Amilcare Iannucci: 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 …
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€80.47
Rebecca Dixon & Finn E. Sinclair: Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France
The role of poetry in the transmission and shaping of knowledge in late medieval France.
Covering the period from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth century,
Poetry, Knowledge, and Commu …
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€32.99
Suzanne Conklin Akbari & James Simpson: Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
As the ‚father‘ of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every ‚great books‘ syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, …
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€41.59
Suzanne Conklin Akbari & James Simpson: Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
As the ‚father‘ of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every ‚great books‘ syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, …
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€41.55
Goodman Amanda Goodman & Akbari Suzanne Conklin Akbari: Practices of Commentary
The comparative or connected study of localized intellectual traditions poses special challenges to the global turn in medieval studies. How can we enable conversations across language groups and …
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€155.66
Steve Mentz: Sailing without Ahab
Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new light Come sail with I. We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, th …
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€20.99
Steve Mentz: Sailing without Ahab
Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new light Come sail with I. We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, th …
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€20.99
