Fabulous orients : fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785 / Ros Ballaster.

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Ballaster, Rosalind
Formato:	livro eletrônico
Idioma:	English
Publicado em:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
coleção:	OUP E-Books.
Assuntos:	1500-1799 English literature > Asian influences. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Orientalism in literature. Exoticism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature English literature > Asian influences English literature > Early modern Exoticism in literature Literature Orientalism in literature Middle East > In literature. Orient > In literature. Asia > In literature. Asia Asia > Orient Middle East Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Sumário:

Narrative moves. Dinarzade, the second string
The state of narrative
Shape-shifting: Oriental tales. Fadlallah and Zemroude: transmigratory desires
The framed sequence
Travellers' tales
Fictional letters
Histories
Heroic drama
A passion for tales
Tales of the Seraglio: Turkey and Persia. Roxolana: the loquacious courtesan
Speaking likenesses: Turkey and Persia
Loquacious women I: staging the Orient
Loquacious women II: narrating the Orient
Speculative men I: spies and correspondents
Speculative men II: court secrets
'Fabulous and romantic': the 'Embassy Letters' and 'The Sultan's Tale'
'Bearing Confucius' morals to Britannia's ears': China. Tourandocte: the riddling princess
Chinese whispers
Orphans and absolutism: tragedies of state
Empire of Dulness
Narrative transmigrations
Chinese letters of reason
Madness and civilization
'Dreams of men awake': India. Canzade: the illusory sati
India as illusion
'The dreaming Priest': Aureng-Zebe
The treasures of the East: Indian tales
Tales of India: weaving illusions
The Indian fable: rational animals
Waking from the dream
Epilogue: romantic revisions of the Orient.

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