TY  - BOOK
AU  - Said,Edward W.
TI  - Orientalism
T2  - Modern Classics
SN  - 9780141187426
U1  - 303.4 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Pengiun
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - East and West
KW  - Asia
KW  - Foreign public opinion, Occidental
KW  - Middle East
N1  - 1. The scope of Orientalism -- 
2. Orientalis structures and restructures -- 
3. Orientalism now
N2  - Surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. Tracing this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert, Disraeli and Kipling, whose imaginative depictions have greatly contributed to the West's romantic and exotic picture of the Orient
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