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Orientalist poetics : the Islamic Middle East in nineteenth-century English and French poetry / Emily A. Haddad.
Van Pelt Library PR129.M54 H33 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haddad, Emily A.
- Series:
- Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
- [The nineteenth century]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Oriental influences.
- English poetry.
- French poetry.
- Middle East--In literature.
- Middle East.
- English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- French poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- Islamic civilization in literature.
- French poetry--Oriental influences.
- Islam in literature.
- Orientalism.
- Middle East Region.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 220 pages; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 To instruct without displeasing: Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam and Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer 11
- Instruction in The Revolt of Islam 13
- Tyranny: the Orient's chief export 17
- Tyranny's comrades: religion and sexism 21
- Orientalism and Shelley's poetics 25
- Morals vs. materials: instruction and pleasure in Thalaba the Destroyer 28
- The desert, Islam: foreignness as a hermeneutic category 33
- Foreignness general and particular: character as archetype 35
- Extremes: too many notes? 41
- Southey and his readers: delighted, informed, or distressed 45
- Representation and the "Arabesque ornament" 47
- 2 Representing, misrepresenting, not representing: Victor Hugo's Les Orientales and Alfred de Musset's "Namouna" 54
- Hugo's preface: poetic ideals and the Orient as subject 55
- "La Douleur du pacha": the Orient as origin or as end 59
- "Adieux de l'hotesse arabe": stasis 62
- "Novembre": returning to Paris, the self, and mimesis 65
- Hugo's critics: E.J. Chetelat 70
- George Gordon Byron's Don Juan: "But what's reality?" 74
- "Namouna": fragmentary representation 79
- No narrative, no representation 85
- Authority, referents, and representation 90
- The Middle East: "impossible a decrire" 97
- 3 Orientalist poetics and the nature of the Middle East 101
- William Wordsworth and the nature of the Middle East 103
- Felicia Heman's ambivalence 109
- Truth in illustrating Robert Southey and Thomas Moore 113
- Leconte de Lisle: "Le Desert," "le desert du monde" 118
- Theophile Gautier: the composite desert 125
- "In deserto": European nature in absentia 130
- Out of the desert: Byron's "Turkish Tales" 136
- Matthew Arnold in Bukhara: nature in the Middle Eastern city 141
- Alfred Tennyson's Basra: natural phenomena and urban construction 147
- Orientalist poetics, Oscar Wilde 152
- 4 The Orient's art, orienting art 155
- A confederation of the Middle East and art: Wordsworth 155
- The Middle East as a source of art: Leconte de Lisle 157
- Middle Eastern art and Gautier's imagination 164
- Nightingales and roses I: Walter Savage Landor and oriental literature 171
- Nightingales and roses II: Moore and the Orient as an ideal 175
- Hemans's Middle Eastern models 178
- Grounding a poetics in the 1001 Nights: Tennyson 183
- The Orient and Tennyson's p(a)lace of art 187
- Gautier's orientalist poetics and art for art's sake 192
- Orientalist poetics, Oscar Wilde: culmination 199.
- Notes:
- Series statement taken from jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754603040
- OCLC:
- 47297717
- Online:
- Table of Contents
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