Fabulous orients fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785

Narrative moves. Stories migrate from one culture to another, over vast distances sometimes, but their path is often difficult to trace and obscured by time. Fabulous Orients looks at the traffic of narrative between Orient and Occident in the eighteenth century, and challenges the assumption that h...

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Auteur principal: Ballaster, Ros
Autres auteurs: Ros Ballaster
Langue:Undetermined
English
Publié: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2005
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Résumé:Narrative moves. Stories migrate from one culture to another, over vast distances sometimes, but their path is often difficult to trace and obscured by time. Fabulous Orients looks at the traffic of narrative between Orient and Occident in the eighteenth century, and challenges the assumption that has dominated since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) that such traffic is always one-way. Eighteenth-century readers in the West came to draw their mental maps of oriental territories and distinctions between them from their experience of reading tales "from" the Orient...
Description matérielle:xiii, 408 p.
ill.
23 cm
ISBN:0199267332
9780199267330