| Description |
556 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-516) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Edward Said and the Saidists. pt. 2. The three golden threads and the misapprehensions of Edward Said. Three tutelary guiding lights -- Classical antiquity -- Early Christianity to the Seventeenth Century -- Indian Orientalists -- Western archaeologists -- Empire and Curzon -- Edward Said and his methodology -- The pathological niceness of liberals, antimonies, paradoxes, and Western values -- pt. 3. Orientalism in painting and sculpture, music and literature. Orientals as collectors -- Painting and sculpture -- Occidental influence on eastern art -- Nineteenth-Century Orientalist art -- Painters as writers -- John Frederick Lewis -- Hegel and the meaning, significance, and influence of Dutch genre painting -- Charles Cordier : Orientalist sculptor -- Religion, piety, and portraits -- Oriental and African American Orientalists -- Orientalism and music -- Literature and Orientalism. |
| Subject |
Said, Edward W. Orientalism.
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Orientalism.
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Asia -- Study and teaching.
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Middle East -- Study and teaching.
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East and West.
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| ISBN |
9781591024842 |
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1591024846 |
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