Oriental Prospects: Western Literature and the Lure of the EastC. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen Rodopi, 1998 - 283 pàgines A great deal of stimulating and valuable discussion (as well as some indignation and hot air) has been stimulated by Edward Said, whose provocative study of Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient appeared twenty years ago. This present book will, we believe, be recognized as a worthy addition to the many attempts that have since been made to sift the intrinsic and ingrained attitudes of West to East. The fifteen articles in Oriental Prospects: Western Literature and the Lure of the East cover literature from the Renaissance through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the modern period, some in pragmatic accounts of responses to and uses of experiences of the Orient and its cultural attitudes and artefacts, others contending more theoretically with issues that Edward Said has raised. Despite all the misunderstanding, prejudice and propaganda in the scholarly and literary depiction of the Orient still today as in the past, what emerges from this wide-range of articles is that no species of literary text or academic study can appear without risking the accusation of escapist exoticism or cultural and economic exploitation; and thus regrettably masking the essential and vital significance of the political and the real and imaginative trading between East and West. |
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... sense " . Rather the modern reader is likely to be astonished by De Quincey's proud sense of imperial prowess and racial superiority : ... this is the very description of our own English condition as a people [ scattered and diffused in ...
... sense " . Rather the modern reader is likely to be astonished by De Quincey's proud sense of imperial prowess and racial superiority : ... this is the very description of our own English condition as a people [ scattered and diffused in ...
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... sense of justice will ever be made available which does not speak through their fears " , De Quincey asserts . " And in such circumstances it is no surprise that he waxes indignant over the notion that a British ambassador should have ...
... sense of justice will ever be made available which does not speak through their fears " , De Quincey asserts . " And in such circumstances it is no surprise that he waxes indignant over the notion that a British ambassador should have ...
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... sense of inadequacy induced by the insoluble friction between the ideal of subduing Islam on the one hand , and , on the other , the opportunistic mercantile aim of conducting trade with the Turk at Constantinople . While the dramatists ...
... sense of inadequacy induced by the insoluble friction between the ideal of subduing Islam on the one hand , and , on the other , the opportunistic mercantile aim of conducting trade with the Turk at Constantinople . While the dramatists ...
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... sense of self - satire . We are indebted to Said for illustrating how Western mercantile opportunism , with its increasing need of political and academic representation or justification strategies , gradually achieved the secular ...
... sense of self - satire . We are indebted to Said for illustrating how Western mercantile opportunism , with its increasing need of political and academic representation or justification strategies , gradually achieved the secular ...
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... sense , one of Jones's most remarkable contributions was his vision of the literary future . He was one of the first really to recognize the need for a revolution against the closed couplet , stereotyped language , and other ...
... sense , one of Jones's most remarkable contributions was his vision of the literary future . He was one of the first really to recognize the need for a revolution against the closed couplet , stereotyped language , and other ...
Continguts
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English Romantic Poets and the FreeFloating Orient | 65 |
Paul Pelckmans | 97 |
Gerard Termorshuizen | 111 |
Robert Druce | 131 |
Joep Leerssen | 161 |
Michael Beard | 175 |
Ieme van der Poel | 199 |
John Thieme | 225 |
Elleke Boehmer | 239 |
Notes on Contributors | 263 |
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Pàgina 69 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Pàgina 87 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice...
Pàgina 86 - The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
Pàgina 148 - I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by paroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas : and was fixed, for centuries, at the summit, or in secret rooms ; I was the idol ; I was the priest ; I was worshipped ; I was sacrificed.
Pàgina 147 - Altama murmurs to their woe. Far different there from all that charm'd before, The various terrors of that horrid shore; Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing.
Pàgina 69 - ... the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor in whose dominions the Father of Waters begins his course ; whose bounty pours down the streams of plenty, and scatters over half the world the harvests of Egypt.
Pàgina 133 - Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Pàgina 148 - Under the connecting feeling of tropical heat and vertical sunlights, I brought together all creatures, birds, beasts, reptiles, all trees and plants, usages, and appearances, that are found in all tropical regions, and assembled them together in China or Hindostan.
Pàgina 85 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Pàgina 82 - We have offended, Oh! my countrymen! We have offended very grievously, And been most tyrannous. From east to west A groan of accusation pierces Heaven! The wretched plead against us; multitudes Countless and vehement, the sons of God, Our brethren!