An edition of Orientalist Poetics
(2001)
Orientalist poetics
the Islamic Middle East in nineteenth-century English and French poetry
by Emily A. Haddad
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Civilization, Islamic, in literature, English poetry, French poetry, History and criticism, In literature, Islam in literature, Oriental influences, Orientalism, English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century, French poetry, history and criticism, Islamic civilization, Islamic civilization in literature, Poésie anglaise, Histoire et critique, Poésie française, Civilisation islamique dans la littérature, Islam dans la littérature, Orientalisme, POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature, Oriëntalisme, Gedichten, Frans, Engels, Engelsk poesi, Orientaliska influenser, Historia, Fransk poesi, Islam i litteraturenPlaces
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: To instruct without displeasing: Percy Shelley's The Revolt of Islam
and Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer
Instruction in The Revolt of lslam
Tyranny: the Orient's chief export
Tyranny's comrades: religion and sexism
Orientalism and Shelley's poetics
Morals vs. materials: instruction and pleasure in Thalaba
the Destroyer
The desert, Islam: foreignness as a hermeneutic category
Foreignness general and particular: character as archetype
Extremes: too many notes?
Southey and his readers: delighted, informed, or
distressed
Representation and the "Arabesque ornament"
2 Representing, misrepresenting, not representing:
Victor Hugo's Les Orientales and Alfred de Musset's "Namouna"
Hugo's preface: poetic ideals and the Orient as subject
"La Douleur du pacha": the Orient as origin or as end
"Adieux de l'hotesse arabe": stasis
"Novembre": returning to Paris, the self, and mimesis
Hugo's critics: E.J. Ch6telat
George Gordon Byron's Don Juan: "But what's reality?"
"Namouna": fragmentary representation
No narrative, no representation
Authority, referents, and representation
The Middle East: "impossible a decrire"
3 Orientalist poetics and the nature of the Middle East
William Wordsworth and the nature of the Middle East
Felicia Hemans's ambivalence
Truth in illustrating Robert Southey and Thomas Moore
Leconte de Lisle: "Le Desert," "le desert du monde"
Theophile Gautier: the composite desert
"In deserto": European nature in absentia
Out of the desert: Byron's "Turkish Tales"
Matthew Arnold in Bukhara: nature in the Middle
Eastern city
Alfred Tennyson's Basra: natural phenomena and urban
construction
Orientalist poetics, Oscar Wilde
4 The Orient's art, orienting art
A confederation of the Middle East and art: Wordsworth
The Middle East as a source of art: Leconte de Lisle
Middle Eastern art and Gautier's imagination
Nightingales and roses I: Walter Savage Landor and
oriental literature
Nightingales and roses II: Moore and the Orient as an
ideal
Hemans's Middle Eastern models
Grounding a poetics in the 1001 Nights: Tennyson
The Orient and Tennyson's p(a)lace of art
Gautier's orientalist poetics and art for art's sake
Orientalist poetics, Oscar Wilde: culmination
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p.[202]-214) and index.
"Series statement taken from jacket"
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