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Fabulous Orients
Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785
Taschenbuch von Ros Ballaster
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Born in Bombay, India, in 1962, Ros Ballaster has had an abiding interest in eastern culture and narrative. She was a visiting Fellow at Harvard University 1988-89; Lecturer in English Literature at University of East Anglia 1989-1993; and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2000-2003. She is currently College and University Fellow in English Literature at Mansfield College, Oxford.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1. Narrative moves

  • 1.1: Dinarzade, the second string

  • 1.2: The state of narrative

  • 2. Shape shifting: oriental tales

  • 2.1: Fadlallah and Zemroude, transmigratory desires

  • 2.2: The framed sequence

  • 2.3: Travellers' tales

  • 2.4: Fictional letters

  • 2.5: Histories

  • 2.6: Heroic drama

  • 2.7: A passion for tales

  • 3. Tales of the seraglio: Turkey and Persia

  • 3.1: Roxolana: the loquacious courtesan

  • 3.2: Speaking likenesses: Turkey and Persia

  • 3.3: Loquacious women I: staging the Orient

  • 3.4: Loquacious women II: narrating the Orient

  • 3.5: Speculative men I: spies and correspondents

  • 3.6: Speculative men II: court secrets

  • 3.7: 'Fabulous and Romantic': the Embassy Letters and the Sultan's Tale

  • 4. 'Bearing Confucius' morals to Britannia's ears': China

  • 4.1: Turandocte: the riddling princess

  • 4.2: Chinese whispers

  • 4.3: Orphans and absolutism: tragedies of state

  • 4.4: Empires of Dulness

  • 4.5: Narrative transmigrations

  • 4.6: Chinese letters of reason

  • 4.7: Madness and civilization

  • 5. 'Dreams of men awake': India

  • 5.1: Canzade: the illusory sati

  • 5.2: India as illusion

  • 5.3: 'The dreaming priest': Aureng-Zebe

  • 5.4: The treasures of the East: Indian tales

  • 5.5: Tales of India: weaving illusions

  • 5.6: The Indian fable: rational animals

  • 5.7: Waking from the dream

  • 6. Epilogue: Romantic revisions of the Orient

Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 424
ISBN-13: 9780199234295
ISBN-10: 0199234299
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ballaster, Ros
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 216 x 140 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Ros Ballaster
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2007
Gewicht: 0,531 kg
preigu-id: 108626110
Über den Autor
Born in Bombay, India, in 1962, Ros Ballaster has had an abiding interest in eastern culture and narrative. She was a visiting Fellow at Harvard University 1988-89; Lecturer in English Literature at University of East Anglia 1989-1993; and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2000-2003. She is currently College and University Fellow in English Literature at Mansfield College, Oxford.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1. Narrative moves

  • 1.1: Dinarzade, the second string

  • 1.2: The state of narrative

  • 2. Shape shifting: oriental tales

  • 2.1: Fadlallah and Zemroude, transmigratory desires

  • 2.2: The framed sequence

  • 2.3: Travellers' tales

  • 2.4: Fictional letters

  • 2.5: Histories

  • 2.6: Heroic drama

  • 2.7: A passion for tales

  • 3. Tales of the seraglio: Turkey and Persia

  • 3.1: Roxolana: the loquacious courtesan

  • 3.2: Speaking likenesses: Turkey and Persia

  • 3.3: Loquacious women I: staging the Orient

  • 3.4: Loquacious women II: narrating the Orient

  • 3.5: Speculative men I: spies and correspondents

  • 3.6: Speculative men II: court secrets

  • 3.7: 'Fabulous and Romantic': the Embassy Letters and the Sultan's Tale

  • 4. 'Bearing Confucius' morals to Britannia's ears': China

  • 4.1: Turandocte: the riddling princess

  • 4.2: Chinese whispers

  • 4.3: Orphans and absolutism: tragedies of state

  • 4.4: Empires of Dulness

  • 4.5: Narrative transmigrations

  • 4.6: Chinese letters of reason

  • 4.7: Madness and civilization

  • 5. 'Dreams of men awake': India

  • 5.1: Canzade: the illusory sati

  • 5.2: India as illusion

  • 5.3: 'The dreaming priest': Aureng-Zebe

  • 5.4: The treasures of the East: Indian tales

  • 5.5: Tales of India: weaving illusions

  • 5.6: The Indian fable: rational animals

  • 5.7: Waking from the dream

  • 6. Epilogue: Romantic revisions of the Orient

Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 424
ISBN-13: 9780199234295
ISBN-10: 0199234299
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ballaster, Ros
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 216 x 140 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Ros Ballaster
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2007
Gewicht: 0,531 kg
preigu-id: 108626110
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