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UNINA9910272354003321 |
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Autore |
Lowe Lisa |
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Titolo |
Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms / / Lisa Lowe |
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Cornell University Press, 2018 |
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Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1991 |
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©1991 |
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ISBN |
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1-5017-2805-9 |
0-8014-2579-4 |
1-5017-2312-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Exoticism in literature |
British - Orient - History |
French - Orient - History |
Orientalism |
English literature - Asian influences |
French literature - Asian influences |
Electronic books. |
Orient In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy |
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