England's Asian Renaissance
By Abdulhamit Arvas, Amrita Sen, Carmen Nocentelli, Emily Soon, Jennifer Feather, Nedda Mehdizadeh, Rachana Sachdev, Richmond Barbour, Su Fang Ng, Thea Buckley | Publisher: University of Delaware Press
About the book
England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia.
Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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- ISBN 9781644532423
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- ISBN 9781644532430
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England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia.
Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia.
Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in England's Asian Renaissance?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600
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Is England's Asian Renaissance part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series The Early Modern Exchange
Who is/are the Author/s of the book England's Asian Renaissance?
Abdulhamit Arvas, Amrita Sen, Carmen Nocentelli, Emily Soon, Jennifer Feather, Nedda Mehdizadeh, Rachana Sachdev, Richmond Barbour, Su Fang Ng, Thea Buckley
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