Eva Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3654204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Czeslaw Milosz
Way to Go
Out of Exile
Exile is a strong marker of identity for a writer, but to keep it forever as part of one's self-image surely involves a kind of mis-description, or at least over-simplification. Maintaining the position of being in exile also has its dangers: the posture of detachment can turn into a kind of wilful separation. Moreover migration, dislocation, various kinds of nomadism are becoming the norm, but this extreme mobility relativises even the most stab…
Making New Worlds Possible
It’s a great honour and a great pleasure for me to have been asked to contribute to what is in effect a virtual Festschrift dedicated to Dame Gillian Beer. An honour first of all, because of Gillian Beer’s distinguished role in this country’s cultural and literary life and the brilliant achievement of her work. Her explorations of the ways in which scientific thought of a period informs the literary imagination, of the overt intersections and sub…
Translating Image and Text in the Medieval Mediterranean World between the Tenth and Thirteenth Centuries
This paper approaches the issue of the mechanisms and routes of transmission through the celebrated phenomenon of the translation of scientific works, to and from Greek, Arabic and Latin, that had its beginnings in Baghdad in the eighth century and expanded throughout European Mediterranean centers of scholarship by the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The focus is on the famous De Materia Medica of the first-century CE scholar Dioscorides and spe…
Between East and West
Between East and West
After Such Knowledge
Islamic art
Pathways of Portability
This paper will focus on the role of the portable arts in cross‐cultural interchange between Islamic and Christian realms from the tenth to the twelfth century. I will argue here for an expansion of the study of portable arts beyond the traditional focus on sites of production to the consideration of the arenas in which works were circulated and viewed. Instead of asking where objects came from, the question will be how objects were used and perc…
The Beginnings of the Illustrated Arabic Book
The Beginnings of the Illustrated Arabic Book
The Author Portrait in Thirteenth-Century Arabic Manuscripts
Pathways of Portability
This paper will focus on the role of the portable arts in cross‐cultural interchange between Islamic and Christian realms from the tenth to the twelfth century. I will argue here for an expansion of the study of portable arts beyond the traditional focus on sites of production to the consideration of the arenas in which works were circulated and viewed. Instead of asking where objects came from, the question will be how objects were used and perc…
The Author Portrait in Thirteenth-Century Arabic Manuscripts
The Beginnings of the Illustrated Arabic Book
The Beginnings of the Illustrated Arabic Book
Pathways of Portability
This paper will focus on the role of the portable arts in cross‐cultural interchange between Islamic and Christian realms from the tenth to the twelfth century. I will argue here for an expansion of the study of portable arts beyond the traditional focus on sites of production to the consideration of the arenas in which works were circulated and viewed. Instead of asking where objects came from, the question will be how objects were used and perc…
Islamic art
After Such Knowledge
Between East and West
Between East and West
Making New Worlds Possible
It’s a great honour and a great pleasure for me to have been asked to contribute to what is in effect a virtual Festschrift dedicated to Dame Gillian Beer. An honour first of all, because of Gillian Beer’s distinguished role in this country’s cultural and literary life and the brilliant achievement of her work. Her explorations of the ways in which scientific thought of a period informs the literary imagination, of the overt intersections and sub…
Translating Image and Text in the Medieval Mediterranean World between the Tenth and Thirteenth Centuries
This paper approaches the issue of the mechanisms and routes of transmission through the celebrated phenomenon of the translation of scientific works, to and from Greek, Arabic and Latin, that had its beginnings in Baghdad in the eighth century and expanded throughout European Mediterranean centers of scholarship by the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The focus is on the famous De Materia Medica of the first-century CE scholar Dioscorides and spe…
Out of Exile
Exile is a strong marker of identity for a writer, but to keep it forever as part of one's self-image surely involves a kind of mis-description, or at least over-simplification. Maintaining the position of being in exile also has its dangers: the posture of detachment can turn into a kind of wilful separation. Moreover migration, dislocation, various kinds of nomadism are becoming the norm, but this extreme mobility relativises even the most stab…
Way to Go
On Czeslaw Milosz
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