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100 1 |aBarletta, Vincent.
245 10|aDeath in Babylon :|bAlexander the Great and Iberian Empire in the Muslim Orient.
264 4|c©2010.
300 |a1 online resource (271 pages)
336 |atext|btxt|2rdacontent
337 |acomputer|bc|2rdamedia
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505 0 |aIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Death and the Other: An Introduction -- 2. The Stinking Corpse: Alexander, the Greeks, and the Romans -- 3. Oblivion: Iberian Empire in the Maghreb -- 4. Immortality: The Promise of Asia -- 5. Judgment: The Aljamiado Alexander -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.
520 |aThough Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronicles, chivalric romances, novels, travelogues, and crypto-Muslim texts, Vincent Barletta shows that the story of Alexander not only sowed the seeds of Iberian empire but foreshadowed the decline of Portuguese and Spanish influence in the centuries to come. Death in Babylon depicts Alexander as a complex symbol of Western domination, immortality, dissolution, heroism, villainy, and death. But Barletta also shows that texts ostensibly celebrating the conqueror were haunted by failure. Examining literary and historical works in Aljamiado, Castilian, Catalan, Greek, Latin, and Portuguese, Death in Babylon develops a view of empire and modernity informed by the ethical metaphysics of French phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas. A novel contribution to the literature of empire building, Death in Babylon provides a frame for the deep mortal anxiety that has infused and given shape to the spread of imperial Europe from its very beginning.
588 |aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 |aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2021. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0|aAlexander, -- the Great, -- 356-323 B.C. -- In literature..
650 0|aSpanish literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism..
650 0|aPortuguese literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism..
650 0|aSpain -- History -- 711-1516.
655 4|aElectronic books.
776 08|iPrint version:|aBarletta, Vincent|tDeath in Babylon|dChicago : University of Chicago Press,c2010|z9780226037363
797 2 |aProQuest (Firm)
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