Making Sense of the Other: Reading and Contextualising Xuanzang’s Representation of India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Frontmatter X
5. Connected Philology: Introduction 1
6. Single Words in Cultural Transfer Processes
7. Himalayan Encounters 19
8. Scriptio Buddhica, Interpretatio Islamica 49
9. The Reciprocity of Paul’s Identity Formation 79
10. Textual Networks and Transcultural Encounters
11. Tracing Transregional Connections through References to Sanskrit Texts in the Śaiva Old Javanese Literature from Java and Bali 99
12. Making Sense of the Other: Reading and Contextualising Xuanzang’s Representation of India 133
13. Imagining Male Fairies in European Literature of the Middle Ages 151
14. History and Politics of Connected and Connecting Philology
15. Connecting Two Assyrian Dictionary Projects (1930–1935): James Henry Breasted and Bruno Meissner 185
16. Clandestine Resistance Literature as the Literature of Trauma 215
17. Transformation through Translation: The Introduction of Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre into the Turkish Theatrical System 233
18. Afterword 253
19. List of Contributors
20. Index