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Title:

Oriental prospects : western literature and the lure of the East / edited by C.C. Barfoot and Theo D'haen.

Publisher:

Rodopi,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

283 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

East and West in literature.
Exoticism in literature
Middle East--In literature.
India--In literature.
China--In literature.

Other Authors:

Barfoot, C. C.
Haen, Theo d'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Oriental prospects -- The Elizabethans and the Turk at Constantinople / Ton Hoenselaars -- Sir William Jones and literary orientalism / Garland Cannon -- William Beckford's symbolic appropriation of the oriental context / El Habib Benrahhal Serghini -- English romantic poets and the "free-floating Orient" / C.C. Barfoot -- Walter Scott's Orient : The Talisman / Paul Pelckmans -- In search of the noble svage : travellers' accounts in old Indies government journals (1816-1830) / Gerard Termorshuizen -- The "heathen Chinee" and the "yellow peril" : pseudo-Chinoiserie in popular fiction / Robert Druce --Irish studies and Orientalism : Ireland and the Orient / Joep Leerssen -- Recitatif / Michael Beard -- The vulnerabilities of an honest broker : Edward Said and the problems of theory / Willem Otterspeer -- Orientalism and the French left : the case of Tel Quel and China / Ieme van der Poel -- Orientalist visions and revisions : Edward Said's Orientalism and representations of the Orient in Paul Bowles / William Schouppe -- Cartographical revisionism in the new literatures in English / John Thieme -- Post-colonial literary studies : a neo-orientalism? / Elleke Boehmer --Unquiet on the western front : the "orientalism" of contemporary
Chinese-American women writers / Edward D. Graham.

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; 22

ISBN:

9789042005822
9042005823

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)