Oriental prospects : western literature and the lure of the East / edited by C.C. Barfoot and Theo D'haen.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998.
- Contents:
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- Introduction : Oriental prospects
- The Elizabethans and the Turk at Constantinople / Ton Hoenselaars
- Sir William Jones and literary orientalism / Garland Cannon
- William Beckford's symbolic appropriation of the oriental context / El Habib Benrahhal Serghini
- English romantic poets and the "free-floating Orient" / C.C. Barfoot
- Walter Scott's Orient : The Talisman / Paul Pelckmans
- In search of the noble savage : travellers' accounts in old Indies government journals (1816-1830) / Gerard Termorshuizen
- The "heathen Chinee" and the "yellow peril" : pseudo-Chinoiserie in popular fiction / Robert Druce
- Irish studies and Orientalism : Ireland and the Orient / Joep Leerssen
- Recitatif / Michael Beard
- The vulnerabilities of an honest broker : Edward Said and the problems of theory / Willem Otterspeer
- Orientalism and the French left : the case of Tel Quel and China / Ieme van der Poel
- Orientalist visions and revisions : Edward Said's Orientalism and representations of the Orient in Paul Bowles / William Schouppe
- Cartographical revisionism in the new literatures in English / John Thieme
- Post-colonial literary studies : a neo-orientalism? / Elleke Boehmer
- Unquiet on the western front : the "orientalism" of contemporary Chinese-American women writers / Edward D. Graham.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9042005823
- OCLC:
- 40363944
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