Fabulous orients : fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785 /
The first book-length study of the oriental tale in England since 1908, Fabulous Orients is an original work of criticism which illustrates the centrality of narratives of and from the eastern territories of Turkey, Persia, China, and India in the formation of the novel and constructions of western...
| Основен автор: | Ballaster, Rosalind. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=201125 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Fabulous orients. |
| Резюме: |
The first book-length study of the oriental tale in England since 1908, Fabulous Orients is an original work of criticism which illustrates the centrality of narratives of and from the eastern territories of Turkey, Persia, China, and India in the formation of the novel and constructions of western identity in a culture on the threshold of empire. - ;Narrative moves. Stories migrate from one culture to another, over vast distances sometimes, but their path is often difficult to trace and obscured by time. Fabulous Orients looks at the traffic of narrative between Orient and Occident in the eig. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiii, 408 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-392) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780191514852 0191514853 1280756721 9781280756726 |