Oriental Prospects: Western Literature and the Lure of the EastC. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen Rodopi, 1998 - 283 pagina's 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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... facts of the case ) , have terminated in forcing upon the public eye a false position of the whole interest at stake , - a position in which all the relations of person are inverted , in which things are confounded , and our duties ...
... facts of the case ) , have terminated in forcing upon the public eye a false position of the whole interest at stake , - a position in which all the relations of person are inverted , in which things are confounded , and our duties ...
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... facts , it proclaims our indomitable energy , and our courageous self - dependence . Of all nations that ever have been heard of , we are the most scattered and exposed .... the very outposts of civilisation are held by Englishmen ...
... facts , it proclaims our indomitable energy , and our courageous self - dependence . Of all nations that ever have been heard of , we are the most scattered and exposed .... the very outposts of civilisation are held by Englishmen ...
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... fact that one of his sons had died in China in military service had imparted a tinge of bitter personal interest to this theoretical antipathy " . 5. Ibid . , 175 . - 6. Ibid . , 356 ff . De Quincey notes that " There seems to have been ...
... fact that one of his sons had died in China in military service had imparted a tinge of bitter personal interest to this theoretical antipathy " . 5. Ibid . , 175 . - 6. Ibid . , 356 ff . De Quincey notes that " There seems to have been ...
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... fact that Robert's wife should be referred to as the ( otherwise nameless ) " Sophy's niece " may well be interpreted as an act of the imagination committed in order to align the Anglo - foreign marriage more closely to the politico ...
... fact that Robert's wife should be referred to as the ( otherwise nameless ) " Sophy's niece " may well be interpreted as an act of the imagination committed in order to align the Anglo - foreign marriage more closely to the politico ...
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... fact that it appealed to the London imagination includes Martha's account in Thomas Nabbes's Tottenham - Court ( 1634 ) of " three sonnes , and all great travellers " , one of whom " shooke the great Turke by the beard " , which ...
... fact that it appealed to the London imagination includes Martha's account in Thomas Nabbes's Tottenham - Court ( 1634 ) of " three sonnes , and all great travellers " , one of whom " shooke the great Turke by the beard " , which ...
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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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Pagina 67 - 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.
Pagina 85 - 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...
Pagina 84 - 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!
Pagina 213 - Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps. I would look for hours at South America, or Africa, or Australia, and lose myself in all the glories of exploration. At that time there were many blank spaces on the earth, and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map (but they all look that) I would put my finger on it and say, When I grow up I will go there.
Pagina 146 - 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.
Pagina 131 - 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.
Pagina 67 - ... 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.
Pagina 146 - 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.
Pagina 80 - 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!
Pagina 83 - 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.