FALL 2006

THE IDEA OF EUROPE

Volume 58, Number 4

(please click on the author's name for a brief abstract of the essay)

ARTICLES

Susan Rubin Suleiman

267

Introduction:  The Idea of Europe

Roberto M. Dainotto

271

Of the Arab Origin of Modern Europe:  Giammaria Barbari,

Juan Andrés, and the Origins of Rhyme

Su Fang Ng

293

Global Renaissance:  Alexander the Great and Early Modern

Classicism from the British Isles to the Malay Archipelago

Caroline D. Eckhardt

313

One Third of the Earth?  Europe Seen and Unseen in the

Middle English Chronicles of the Fourteenth Century

Gerald Gillespie

339

Peripheral Echoes:  "Old" and "New" Worlds as Reciprocal

Literary Mirrorings

John Neubauer

360

The Idea of Europe--Treading on Native Ground?

Monica Spiridon

376

Identity Discourses on Borders in Eastern Europe

John T. Hamilton

387

Integration, Subversion, and the Rape of Europa:

Heinrich Böll's "Er kam als Biefrahrer"

Liliane Weissberg

403

The Sound of Music:  Jews and the Study of Jewish

Culture in the New Europe

Fernando Cabo

418

Dead, or a Picture of Good Health?  Comparatism,

 Aseguinolaza

Europe, and World Literature

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