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Inspired by the growing interest in oriental countries and cultures, Hasan Baktir examines the representation of the ""Ottoman Orient"" in 18th century English literature, taking a new perspective to achieve a comprehensive understanding and investigating different aspects of the interaction between the Ottoman Orient and 18th century Europe.A number of questions continue to arise in the wake of Said's 1978 landmark study, ""Orientalism"". How monodirectional was the flow of power in such representations?
Orientalism in literature. --- Civilization, Oriental, in literature. --- Orient --- In literature.
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The essays in this collection combine cutting-edge literary and rhetorical scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting such issues as torture, genocide, environmental apocalypse, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. First delivered as part of the vibrant ideas exchange of an international conference, they are the product of rigorous selection and review undertaken with an emphasis on their complementarity. The authors include established scholars such as gr...
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Paradoxically, if nature has always been a source of fear, civilisation - its other and at the same time the epitome of progress and order - has not only doubled fear itself, but also added its new sister, anxiety. In effect, the notions of civilisation, fear and anxiety can hardly be separated. Fear - either linked Other anxiety or distinct from it - lies at the foundation of civilisation, which as much promises to shelter us from these afflictions as it does proliferate them. Confronted no l...
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North and South is a multi-dimensional look at a prevailing theme in current discourse on the concept of borders. This collection of essays invites us to cross historical, regional, and disciplinary boundaries. The contributors consider a range of primary texts, use a number of critical approaches, and make some surprising connections. The borders created by the concepts of ""north"" and ""south"" provoke us to ask if the terms continue to represent real divisions, or if usage and habit have drai...
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We live in an age of global revolution. The world around us is raging, in constant movement in different directions. The evolution of the human race is marching towards a powerful spiritual breakthrough. This illuminating book marks the way for us as we move through this change - it is a pointed arrow that lights the way the world must follow, from duality to unity, from separation to love. Ilana Bahat communicates with a spiritual guide who leads her, hand in hand, to an understanding and internalization of the way of One. It is the entity of a great master of light manifested in a body, from
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Writing has come face-to-face with a most crucial juncture: to negotiate with the inescapable presence of violence. Rooted in the domain of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a powerful conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness and deception.
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The distinguished literary critic David Palumbo-Liu posits reading literature as an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others in the age of globalization.
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