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Orientalism / Edward W. Said.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1979Description: xi, 368 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780394740676
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 950.072 SA.O 1979 23
Contents:
Chap. 1: The scope of Orientalism: I. Knowing the Oriental -- II. Imaginative Geography and its representations: Orientalizing the Oriental -- III. Projects -- IV. Crisis -- Chap. 2: Orientalist structures and restructures: I. Redrawn frontiers, redefines issues, secularized religion -- II. Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philological Laboratory -- III. Oriental residence and scholarship: the requirements of Lexicography and imagination -- IV. Pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French -- Chap. 3: Orientalism now: I. Latent and manifest Orientalism -- II. Style, expertise, vision: Orientalism's worldliness -- III. Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in fullest flower -- IV. The latest phase.
Summary: The theme is the way in which intellectual traditions are created and transmitted ... Orientalism is the example Mr. Said uses, and by it he means something precise. The scholar who studies the Orient (and specifically the Muslim Orient), the imaginitive writer who takes it as his subject, and the institutions which have been concerned with teaching it, settling it, ruling it, all have a certain representation or idea of the Orient defined as being other than the Occident, mysterious, unchanging and ultimately inferior."--Albert Houran --
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chap. 1: The scope of Orientalism: I. Knowing the Oriental -- II. Imaginative Geography and its representations: Orientalizing the Oriental -- III. Projects -- IV. Crisis -- Chap. 2: Orientalist structures and restructures: I. Redrawn frontiers, redefines issues, secularized religion -- II. Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philological Laboratory -- III. Oriental residence and scholarship: the requirements of Lexicography and imagination -- IV. Pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French -- Chap. 3: Orientalism now: I. Latent and manifest Orientalism -- II. Style, expertise, vision: Orientalism's worldliness -- III. Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in fullest flower -- IV. The latest phase.

The theme is the way in which intellectual traditions are created and transmitted ... Orientalism is the example Mr. Said uses, and by it he means something precise. The scholar who studies the Orient (and specifically the Muslim Orient), the imaginitive writer who takes it as his subject, and the institutions which have been concerned with teaching it, settling it, ruling it, all have a certain representation or idea of the Orient defined as being other than the Occident, mysterious, unchanging and ultimately inferior."--Albert Houran --

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