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Orientalism / Edward W. Said.

Author/creator Said, Edward W. author.
Format Electronic and Book
EditionFirst Vintage books edition.
Publication Info New York : Vintage Books, 1979.
Copyright Notice ©1978
Description1 online resource (xi, 368 pages)
Supplemental Content Ebook Central
Subject(s)
Contents 1. The scope of orientalism. Knowing the oriental ; Imaginative geography and its representations : orientalizing the oriental ; Projects ; Crisis -- 2. Orienist structures and restructures. Redrawn frontiers, redefined issues, secularized religion ; Silverstre de Sacy and Ernest Renan : rational anthropology and philological laboratory ; Oriental residence and scholarship : the requirements of lexicography and imagination ; Pilgrims and pilgrimages, British and French -- 3. Orientalism now. Latent and manifest orientalism ; Style, expertise, vision : orientalism's worldliness ; Modern Anglo-French orientalism in fullest flower ; The last phase.
Review The theme is the way in which intellectual traditions are created and transmitted ... Orientalism is the example Mr. Said uses, and by it he means something precise. The scholar who studies the Orient (and specifically the Muslim Orient), the imaginitive writer who takes it as his subject, and the institutions which have been concerned with teaching it, settling it, ruling it, all have a certain representation or idea of the Orient defined as being other than the Occident, mysterious, unchanging and ultimately inferior."--Albert Houran -- from http://www.amazon.com (Jan. 28, 2014)
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
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Issued in other formPrint version: Said, Edward W. Orientalism. First Vintage Books edition 039474067X
ISBN9780804153867 (electronic bk.)
ISBN0804153868 (electronic bk.)
Publisher numberEB00581445 Recorded Books
Stock number46DB04EF-D28D-4EFF-AE08-F7E466BEE180 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com

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