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The aim of this book is to provide new insights on the multi-faceted topic of the relationships between ancient Greece and ancient Anatolia before the Classical era. This is a rapidly evolving field of enquiry, thanks to the recent advances in our understanding of the Anatolian languages and the ever-growing availability of primary evidence. The chapters in this volume investigate the question of Graeco-Anatolian contacts from various points of view and with a specifically linguistic and textual focus. The nature of the evidence calls for an interdisciplinary approach, and the contributions presented here range from writing systems to contact linguistics, without excluding the analysis of cultural motifs and religious practices in both literary texts and non-literary evidence.

01 02 Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers, ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity. Essays on Nadeem Aslam, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Mohsin Hamid, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, V. S. Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith and Chris Stewart not only open up their private thought-worlds but also uncover structural metaphors of diasporic experience and show how metaphor, far from being a merely literary figure, may be used (and abused) for political purposes, for defining and preserving a sense of identity, and for surviving in an often hostile world. In the process, the diasporic subject itself emerges as metaphorical by nature, constantly seeking its own meaning as it shuttles back and forth in its imagination between recollected homeland and adopted home. 02 02 Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity. 31 02 This is a reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity 08 02 'A lively, varied and contentious contribution to the field' - James Procter, Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature, University of Newcastle, UK 19 02 Focuses on a very popular area of literary study – uses of metaphor in contemporary 'diasporic' writing Discusses a range of well-studied and popular writers, including Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy and Caryl Phillips Will find a significant audience among students and academics of postcolonial writing, migrant fiction, and postwar British literature Looks at metaphor and migrancy in the work of contemporary writers 04 02 Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Metaphor and Diaspora Tropes of Diasporic Life in the Work of Nadeem Aslam Becoming Foreign: Tropes of Migrant Identity in Three Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah 'My split self and my split world': Troping Identity in Mohsin Hamid's Fiction 'Beige outlaws': Hanif Kureishi, Miscegenation and Diasporic Experience Metaphors of Belonging in Andrea Levy's Small Island Ancestry, Uncertainty and Dislocation in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips Metaphors of the Secular in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie White Teeth's Embodied Metaphors: the Moribund and the Living Orpheus in the Alpujarras: Metaphors of Arrival in Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons References 13 02 JONATHAN P. A. SELL lectures in the Department of Modern Philology of the University of Alcalá, Spain. He is author of Rhetoric and Wonder in English Renaissance Travel Writing, 1560-1613 (Ashgate 2006), Allusion, Identity and Community in Recent British Writing (Universidad de Alcalá, 2011) and Conocer a Shakespeare (Ediciones del Laberinto, 2011).

In The Letter of Mara bar Sarapion in Context Merz and Tieleman present an interdisciplinary collection of studies examining an intriguing yet neglected Syriac letter and its historical context.

Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and translation) depends on recognizing that reception is a creative cultural act (transformation). These essays focus on the people, societies and institutions who were doing the transmitting, translating, and transforming -- the \"agents\". The subject matter ranges from medicine to astronomy, literature to magic, while the cultural context encompasses Islamic and Jewish societies, as well as Byzantium and the Latin West. What unites these studies is their attention to the methodological and conceptual challenges of thinking about agency. Not every agent acted with an agenda, and agenda were sometimes driven by immediate needs or religious considerations that while compelling to the actors, are more opaque to us. What does it mean to say that a text becomes \"available\" for transmission or translation? And why do some texts, once transmitted, fail to thrive in their new milieu? This collection thus points toward a more sophisticated \"ecology\" of transmission, where not only individuals and teams of individuals, but also social spaces and local cultures, act as the agents of cultural creativity.