Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / by Euben, Roxanne Leslie, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Spelling; CHAPTER 1 Frontiers: Walls and Windows-Some Reflections on Travel Narratives; CHAPTER 2 Traveling Theorists and Translating Practices; CHAPTER 3 Liars, Travelers, Theorists-Herodotus and Ibn Battuta; CHAPTER 4 Travel in Search of Practical Wisdom: The Modern Theôriai of al-Tahtawi and Tocqueville; CHAPTER 5 Gender, Genre, and Travel: Montesquieu and Sayyida Salme; CHAPTER 6 Cosmopolitanisms Past and Present, Islamic and Western; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / by Euben, Roxanne Leslie, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Frontiers: walls and windows-some reflections on travel narratives -- Traveling theorists and translating practices -- Theory and theoria -- "Seeing the entire world as a foreign land" -- Exposures and closures -- Islam, travel, and talab al-鬭 -- The double-edged nature of travel -- Travel as translation -- Liars, travelers, theorists-Herodotus and Ibn Battuta -- Travel in search of practical wisdom: the modern theoriai of al-Tahtawi and Tocqueville -- Authorizing autopsy -- Travels across time and space -- Multiple mediations -- Conclusion -- Gender, genre, and travel: Montesquieu and Sayyida Salme -- Montesquieu's Persian letters -- Sayyida Salme's memoirs -- Conclusion -- Cosmopolitanisms past and present, Islamic and Western.…”

Brill's companion to the reception of Herodotus in antiquity and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Ryszard Kapuscinski's Travels with Herodotus: Reportage from the Self / Kinga Kosmala -- 17. …”
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Magill's Literary Annual 2008 : essay-reviews of 200 outstanding books published in the United States during 2007, with an annotated list of titles /

Table of Contents: “…Touch and Go (Terkel)Toussaint Louverture (Bell) -- A Tranquil Star (Levi) -- Travels with Herodotus (Kapuscinski) -- Tree of Smoke (Johnson) -- The Triumph of the Thriller (Anderson) -- Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints (Acocella) -- Two Histories of England (Austen/Dickens) -- Two Lives (Malcolm) -- U -- Uncommon Arrangements (Roiphe) -- The Unnatural History of the Sea (Roberts) -- The Utility of Force (Smith) -- V -- Vaccine (Allen) -- Varieties of Disturbance (Davis) -- Victory of the West (Capponi) -- W -- The Water Cure (Everett)…”
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The Routledge world companion to Polish literature /

Table of Contents: “…/ François Rosset -- The Letters of Jewish Lovers in Dutch: Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's Levi and Sarah / Kris Van Heuckelom -- Part 3: The Nineteenth Century: Romanticism and Positivism -- The Culture of Memory: Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz / Brigita Speičytė -- Adam Mickiewicz: Two Poems and their Brazilian Readings / Henryk Siewierski -- Being's Fated Shade: Cyprian Kamil Norwid's Irony / Michał Mrugalski -- Bolesław Prus's The Doll: Polish Historical Vistas from a Japanese Perspective / Tokimasa Sekiguchi -- Toward Mass Culture: The Global Renown of Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo / Vadis Monika Woźniak -- Part 4: Polish Modernism: From Young Poland to the Interwar Period -- Stanisław Brzozowski's Flames / Jens Herlth -- Rebellion Against Boundaries: Bolesław Leśmian's The Meadow / Katia Vandenborre -- The Polish Avant-Garde in Japan: Bruno Jasieński's I Burn Paris / Ariko Kato -- A Man on the Brink of Disaster: Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz's Insatiability / Michał Paweł Markowski -- History and Myth: Bruno Schulz's Spring / Stanley Bill -- Psychological Realism and Modernist Poetics: Zofia Nałkowska's Boundary / Ursula Phillips -- Part 5: Postwar Literature: Trauma, Exile, Identity -- Witness and Form: Tadeusz Borowski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Bożena Karwowska -- Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's A World Apart / Maria Delaperrière -- Making Sense of Trans-Atlantyk: The Reception of Witold Gombrowicz's Exile Novel in Norway / Knut Andreas Grimstad -- Archaism as a Tool of Change: Reflections on a Poem by Czesław Miłosz / Tomas Venclova -- Stanisław Jerzy Lec's Unkempt Thoughts / Leonard Neuger -- Stanisław Lem's Solaris: Interpretations in the Russian-Speaking World / Wiktor Jaźniewicz -- Translating Memory: The Reception of Miron Białoszewski's A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprisinging North America / Joanna Niżyńska -- Part 6: Beyond Ideology: Literature of the Last Four Decades -- The Drama of Otherness: Tadeusz Różewicz's White Marriage / Tamara Trojanowska -- Wisława Szymborska: Writing a Résumé / Giovanna Tomassucci -- Zbigniew Herbert and Antiquity: Poetry, Oppression, and the Classic / Arent van Nieukerken -- The Untranslatable Trope: Mariusz Wilk's Russian / Cycle Irina Adelgeym -- A Thicket of Hieroglyphs and Ideograms: Ryszard Kapuściński's Travels with Herodotus / Wu Lan -- Try to Praise the Mutilated World: Adam Zagajewski and the Poetry of 9/11 / Clare Cavanagh -- Micro-suspense and the Desire to Keep Reading: Translating Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob / Jennifer Croft -- Afterword: A World History of Polish Literature / Norman Davies (Oxford).…”
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