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Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 (USED)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Oxford University Press
- UPC
- Not Specified
- MPN
- 9.7802E+12
- Model
- 9.7802E+12
- Country of Origin
- USA United States
- Net Quantity or Number of Units
- 1
- Dimensions LxWxH - Cms
- 8.5x5.51x0.86
- ISBN-10
- 0199234299
- ISBN-13
- 9780199234295
- SKU
- SONG0199234299
- No of Pages
- 422
- Type
- Books
- Item Length
- 8.5
- ISBN
- 9780199234295
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785
- Item Height
- 215 mm
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Topic
- Literature, Literary Theory
- Item Weight
- 529 g
- Item Width
- 137 mm
- Number of Pages
- 424 Pages
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Product Information
Narrative moves. Stories migrate from one culture to another, over vast distances sometimes, but their path is often difficult to trace and obscured by time. Fabulous Orients looks at the traffic of narrative between Orient and Occident in the eighteenth century, and challenges the assumption that has dominated since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) that such traffic is always one-way. Eighteenth-century readers in the West came to draw their mental maps of oriental territories and distinctions between them from their experience of reading tales 'from' the Orient. In this proto-colonial period the English encounter with the East was largely mediated through the consumption of material goods such as silks, indigo, muslin, spices, or jewels, imported from the East, together with the more 'moral' traffic of narratives about the East, both imaginary and ethnographic. Through analyses of fictional representations (including travellers' accounts, letter narratives such as Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, and popular sequences of tales such as the Arabian Nights Entertainments) of four oriental territories (Persia, Turkey, China and India), Ros Ballaster demonstrates the ways in which the East came to be understood as a source of story, a territory of fable and narrative. Fabulous Orients is structured according to territory rather than genre. Each section opens by re-narrating an oriental story in which a feminine character serves to 'figure' western desire for the territory she represents: the courtesan queen of the Ottoman seraglio Roxolana; the riddling Chinese princess Turandocte; and the illusory sati of India, Canzade. The book goes on to explore the range of fabulous writings relating to each territory in order to illustrate how certain narrative tropes can come to dominate its representation: the conflict between the male look and female speech staged in the seraglio in the case of Turkey and Persia, the inauthenticity and/or dullness associated with China and its products such as porcelain, and the illusory dreams that are woven in the space of India and associated with its textile industries. This is the first book-length study of the oriental tale to appear for almost a century. Informed by recent historiographical and literary re-assessments of western constructions of the East, it develops an original argument about the use of narrative as a form of sympathetic and imaginative engagement with otherness, a disinvestment of the self rather than a confident expression of colonial or imperial ambition.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780199234295
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89695592
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785
Publication Year
2007
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Literary Theory
Number of Pages
424 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
215 mm
Item Weight
529 g
Item Width
137 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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- 9***9 (360)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe bible has arrived well before estimated delivery time and other to a little tear in the packaging, in good order. I assumed from the pictures that it came in a box cover, however, it was unboxed when I received it. This isn’t an issue as the leather cover is in lovely condition and has been well looked after. It was sold at a very generous price including shipping. The seller was very helpful and quick to reply to questions and I would recommend them. Thank you
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Seller Feedback (3,418)
- 9***9 (360)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe bible has arrived well before estimated delivery time and other to a little tear in the packaging, in good order. I assumed from the pictures that it came in a box cover, however, it was unboxed when I received it. This isn’t an issue as the leather cover is in lovely condition and has been well looked after. It was sold at a very generous price including shipping. The seller was very helpful and quick to reply to questions and I would recommend them. Thank you
- s***s (2996)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseCondition excellent, as described, well packaged, dispatched promptly.Excellent communication from seller. Arrived ahead of anticipated delivery dates. ARRIVED 1st May, expectected between 24th May and 3rd June. Thank you. No import tax payable. A very pleasing experience. Would recommend this seller. A book l have been seeking to replace for 7 years after it got misplaced when moving house after bereavement.Kimono as Art (USED) (#375574897552)
- a***l (338)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseAlthough the description details were misleading, the customer support was rather good. I ordered the 2-volume set of ‘Atlas Shrugged’, but received a single volume. It might not seem like much to others, but it’s a large book and a 2-set volume would have made it easier to read. In addition, poor packaging damaged the DJ. Anyways, after sending firm, yet precise and polite emails, the situation was promptly resolved, hence the positive feedback; and, why I would buy again from the seller. 👍