Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms

Critical Terrains French and British Orientalisms

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lowe, Lisa (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2018
1991.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Exoticism in literature.
British > Orient > History.
French > Orient > History.
Orientalism.
English literature > Asian influences.
French literature > Asian influences.
Orient > In literature.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425664806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Discourse and Heterogeneity: Situating Orientalism
  • 2. Travel Narratives and Orientalism: Montagu and Montesquieu
  • 3. Orient as Woman, Orientalism as Sentimentalism: Flaubert
  • 4. Orientalism as Literary Criticism: The Reception of E. M. Forster's Passage to India
  • 5. The Desires of Postcolonial Orientalism: Chinese Utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Telquel
  • Conclusion: Orientalism Interrupted
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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