Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West

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These essays challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo's writings. Frontmatter i Contents vii Preface ix 1. Introduction: East, West, And In-Between Suzanne Conklin Akbari 3 Part One. Marco Polo And The Experience Of Wonder 2. Text, Image, And Contradiction In The Devisement Dou Monde Debra Higgs Strickland 23 3. Marco Polo’S Le Devisement Dou Monde And The Tributary East Sharon Kinoshita 60 4. Marco Polo’S Devisement Dou Monde As A Narcissistic Trauma Marion Steinicke 87 5. Currents And Currency In Marco Polo’S Devisement Dou Monde And The Book Of John Mandeville Suzanne Conklin Akbari 110 Part Two. The Reception Of Marco Polo: Medieval And Modern 6. Plucking Hairs From The Great Cham’S Beard: Marco Polo, Jan De Langhe, And Sir John Mandeville John Larner 133 7. The World Translated: Marco Polo’S Le Devisement Dou Monde, The Book Of Sir John Mandeville, And Their Medieval Audiences Suzanne M. Yeager 156 8. Calvino’S Rewriting Of Marco Polo: From The 1960 Screenplay To Invisible Cities Martin Mclaughlin 182 9. From Alterity To Holism: Cinematic Depictions Of Marco Polo And His Travels Amilcare A. Iannucci and John Tulk 201 Part Three. Cross-Cultural Currents 10. The Perils Of Dichotomous Thinking: A Case Of Ebb And Flow Rather Than East And West Susan Whitfield 247 11. Marco Polo: Meditations On Intangible Economy And Vernacular Imagination Yunte Huang 262 12. Marco Polo, Chinese Cultural Identity, And An Alternative Model Of East-West Encounter Longxi Zhang 280 Bibliography 297 Contributors 325 Index 329