Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West /

Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West / / Amilcare Iannucci, Suzanne Conklin Akbari.

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...

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Akbari, Suzanne Conklin,
Iannucci, Amilcare,
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Iannucci, Amilcare,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: East, West, And In-Between / Akbari, Suzanne Conklin
  • Part One. Marco Polo And The Experience Of Wonder
  • 2. Text, Image, And Contradiction In The Devisement Dou Monde / Strickland, Debra Higgs
  • 3. Marco Polo'S Le Devisement Dou Monde And The Tributary East / Kinoshita, Sharon
  • 4. Marco Polo'S Devisement Dou Monde As A Narcissistic Trauma / Steinicke, Marion
  • 5. Currents And Currency In Marco Polo'S Devisement Dou Monde And The Book Of John Mandeville / Akbari, Suzanne Conklin
  • Part Two. The Reception Of Marco Polo: Medieval And Modern
  • 6. Plucking Hairs From The Great Cham'S Beard: Marco Polo, Jan De Langhe, And Sir John Mandeville / Larner, John
  • 7. The World Translated: Marco Polo'S Le Devisement Dou Monde, The Book Of Sir John Mandeville, And Their Medieval Audiences / Yeager, Suzanne M.
  • 8. Calvino'S Rewriting Of Marco Polo: From The 1960 Screenplay To Invisible Cities / Mclaughlin, Martin
  • 9. From Alterity To Holism: Cinematic Depictions Of Marco Polo And His Travels / Iannucci, Amilcare A. / Tulk, John
  • Part Three. Cross-Cultural Currents
  • 10. The Perils Of Dichotomous Thinking: A Case Of Ebb And Flow Rather Than East And West / Whitfield, Susan
  • 11. Marco Polo: Meditations On Intangible Economy And Vernacular Imagination / Huang, Yunte
  • 12. Marco Polo, Chinese Cultural Identity, And An Alternative Model Of East-West Encounter / Zhang, Longxi
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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