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Ecstatic Transformation
M. Uebel
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This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c. 1160). The birth of utopic thinking, it argues, is tied to an understanding of alterity having as much to do with the ways the medieval West understood itself as the manner in which the foreign was mapped. Drawing upon the insights of cultural studies, film studies, and psychoanalysis, this book rethinks the contours of the known and the unknown in the medieval period. It demonstrates how ... Read more
This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in the legend and Letter of Prester John (c. 1160). The birth of utopic thinking, it argues, is tied to an understanding of alterity having as much to do with the ways the medieval West understood itself as the manner in which the foreign was mapped. Drawing upon the insights of cultural studies, film studies, and psychoanalysis, this book rethinks the contours of the known and the unknown in the medieval period. It demonstrates how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
237
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Series
New Middle Ages
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403965240
SKU
V9781403965240
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About M. Uebel
MICHAEL UEBEL is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, USA.
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