CHINESE

Islam and Romantic Orientalism: Literary Encounters with the Orient

By Mohammed Sharafuddin

Book information

Publisher
I.B.Tauris
Year
1994
ISBN
9780755612352, 9781860640261
Language
chinese
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17870304 bytes)
Pages
\324
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-07-01 02:10:53

Description

Did European writers and scholars create an image of the Islamic world as a place of tyranny, unreason and immorality destined to be subjected to and exploited by the civilized West? This book takes a fresh look at some of the main literary texts of the Romantic movement explored in Edward Said's classic work. Sharafuddin acknowledges wide areas of truth in Said's thesis, however, he argues that in the work of Southey, Byron, Moore and Landor, who began their careers under the sign of the French Revolution and declared their independence both from political tryanny and from national self-safisfaction, the world of Islam appears not just as an antithesis to the world of European civilization but as an alternative cultural reality with its own values.

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