Orientalism: Western conception of the orient/

The author surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering Orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation. He traces his view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Said, Edward W.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1995.
Subjects:
Study and teaching. > Education. > Asia
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The scope of orientalism. 1. Knowing the oriental
  • - 2. Imaginative geography and its representations
  • orientalizing the oriental
  • - 3. Projects
  • - 4. Crisis
  • -- Part II. Orientalist structures and restructures. 1. Redrawn frontiers, redfined issues, secularized religion
  • - 2. Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan
  • rational anthropology and philogical laboratory
  • - 3. Oriental residence and scholarship
  • the requirements of lexicography and imagination
  • - 4. Pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French
  • -- Part III. Orientalism now. 1. Latent and manifest orientalism
  • - 2. Style, expertise, vision
  • orientalism's worldliness
  • - 3. Modern Anglo-French orientalism in fullest flower
  • - 4. The latest phase.

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