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Orientalist poetics : the Islamic Middle East in nineteenth-century English and French poetry /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2017.
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| Colección: | Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- To instruct without displeasing: Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam and Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer
- Instruction in The Revolt of Islam
- Tyranny: the Orient's chief export
- Tyranny's comrades: religion and sexism
- Orientalism and Shelley's poetics
- Morals vs. materials: instruction and pleasure in Thalaba the Destroyer
- The desert, Islam: foreignness as a hermeneutic category
- Foreignness general and particular: character as archetype
- Extremes: too many notes?
- Southey and his readers: delighted, informed, or distressed
- Representation and the "Arabesque ornament"
- Representing, misrepresenting, not representing: Victor Hugo's Les Orientales and Alfred de Musset's "Namouna"
- Hugo's preface: poetic ideals and the Orient as subject
- "La Douleur du pacha": the Orient as origin or as end
- "Adieux de l'hotesse arabe": stasis
- "Novembre": returning to Paris, the self, and mimesis
- Hugo's critics: E.J. Chetelat
- George Gordon Byron's Don Juan: "But what's reality?"
- "Namouna": fragmentary representation
- No narrative, no representation
- Authority, referents, and representation
- The Middle East: "impossible a decrire"
- Orientalist poetics and the nature of the Middle East
- William Wordsworth and the nature of the Middle East
- Felicia Heman's ambivalence
- Truth in illustrating Robert Southey and Thomas Moore
- Leconte de Lisle: "Le Desert," "le desert du monde"
- Theophile Gautier: the composite desert
- "In deserto": European nature in absentia.