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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Main Author: Lowe, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Engels.
Frans.
Oriëntalisme.
Orientalism.
Literature.
French.
Exoticism in literature.
English literature > Asian influences.
British.
Britanniques > Orient > Histoire.
Français > Orient > Histoire.
Orientalisme.
Litterature française > Influence asiatique.
British > Orient > History.
French > Orient > History.
French literature > Asian influences.
Asia > Orient.
Orient > Dans la litterature.
Orient > In literature.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters and Montesquieu's Lettres persanes and discusses tropes of orientalism, racialism, and romanticism in Flaubert. She then turns to debates in Anglo-American and Indian criticism on Forster's Passage to India and on the utopian projection of China in the poststructuralist theories of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes and in the journal Tel Quel
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9781501723131
Access:Open Access

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