The Problematics of Power
Eastern and Western Representations of Alexander the Great
Published on 1. April 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-3-906750-35-4 (ISBN)
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The present volume is devoted to the ambivalent afterlife of Alexander the Great in a wide spectrum of literature and the arts. In East and West alike, representations of the soldier-king have served both to affirm the cultural values of the author/artist and to question them. This ability to be simultaneously a version of the self and of the other is especially interesting from the point of view of the East/West dichotomy - a dichotomy that the contributions to this volume both uphold (for example by their identification of the East with Islam, and of the West with Christendom) and subvert (for instance by cross-cultural emphases on the relativity of power).
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The Editors: Margaret Bridges holds the chair of Medieval English Language and Literature at the University of Berne. Her publications range from the fields of hagiography, medieval cosmography and travel literature, to studies in which she brings recent critical theory (gender studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology) to bear on medieval texts.
Professor J. Christoph Bürgel is professor emeritus of Islamic Studies at the Universities of Berne and of Fribourg. As well as being one of the foremost orientalists of his generation, with numerous publications on Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu literature and art, he is a poet in his own right and a translator of poetry (most recently of Nizami's Persian Iskandarname).
The Contributors: Florens Deuchler, Hartmut Kugler, Margaret Bridges, André Hurst, W.J. Aerts, Andreas Schmidt-Colinet, J.C. Bürgel, Mario Grignaschi, Charles Genequand, Caroline Sawyer, François de Polignac, Claude-Claire Kappler, Faustina Doufikar-Aerts, Robert Hillenbrand.
Professor J. Christoph Bürgel is professor emeritus of Islamic Studies at the Universities of Berne and of Fribourg. As well as being one of the foremost orientalists of his generation, with numerous publications on Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu literature and art, he is a poet in his own right and a translator of poetry (most recently of Nizami's Persian Iskandarname).
The Contributors: Florens Deuchler, Hartmut Kugler, Margaret Bridges, André Hurst, W.J. Aerts, Andreas Schmidt-Colinet, J.C. Bürgel, Mario Grignaschi, Charles Genequand, Caroline Sawyer, François de Polignac, Claude-Claire Kappler, Faustina Doufikar-Aerts, Robert Hillenbrand.