Critical terrains : French and British orientalisms /

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Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexual...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lowe, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Subjects:
French literature > Asian influences.
English literature > Asian influences.
Orientalism.
French > Orient > History.
British > Orient > History.
Exoticism in literature.
Littérature française > Influence asiatique.
Orientalisme.
Français > Orient > Histoire.
Britanniques > Orient > Histoire.
British
English literature > Asian influences
Exoticism in literature
French
Literature
Orientalism
Oriëntalisme.
Frans.
Engels.
Orient > In literature.
Orient > Dans la littérature.
Asia > Orient
Literature: history & criticism
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Discourse and heterogeneity : situating orientalism
  • Travel narratives and orientalism : Montagu and Montesquieu
  • Orient as woman, orientalism as sentimentalism: Flaubert
  • Orientalism as literary criticism : the reception of E.M. Forster's Passage to India
  • The desires of postcolonial orientalism : Chinese utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Tel quel
  • Conclusion : orientalism interrupted.

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