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Oriental prospects : western literature and the lure of the East

Title
Oriental prospects : western literature and the lure of the East / edited by C.C. Barfoot and Theo D'haen.
Publication
Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Barfoot, C. C.
  • Haen, Theo d'.
Description
283 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
DQR studies in literature ; 22
Subject
  • East and West in literature
  • Exoticism in literature
  • Middle East > In literature
  • India > In literature
  • China > In literature
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
*OAT 99-1011
ISBN
9042005823
OCLC
40363944
Title
Oriental prospects : western literature and the lure of the East / edited by C.C. Barfoot and Theo D'haen.
Imprint
Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998.
Series
DQR studies in literature ; 22
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Barfoot, C. C.
Haen, Theo d'.
Research Call Number
*OAT 99-1011
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