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  1. Iran and French orientalism
    Persia in the literary culture of nineteenth-century France
    Author: Hartley, Julia Caterina
    Published: [2024]
    Publisher:  I.B. Tauris, London

    Location:
    Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek
    Signature:
    011 EV 995 H332
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780755645596; 9780755645633
    Subjects: Rezeption; Literatur; Französisch; Orientalismus <Kulturwissenschaften>
    Scope: xiv, 280 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis und Index
  2. Iran and French orientalism
    Persia in the literary culture of nineteenth-century France
    Author: Hartley, Julia Caterina
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  I.B. Tauris, London

    "Iran and Persian culture hold a distinct place in the imagination of nineteenth-century France; from the poetry of Victor Hugo and Armand Renaud to the travel writing of Jane Dieulafoy. This is the first monograph on the French reception of Iranian... more

     

    "Iran and Persian culture hold a distinct place in the imagination of nineteenth-century France; from the poetry of Victor Hugo and Armand Renaud to the travel writing of Jane Dieulafoy. This is the first monograph on the French reception of Iranian culture, history, and literature in the period spanning from Romanticism to the turn of the twentieth century. Covering both canonical and forgotten authors and comprising four genres: lyric poetry; history and historical fiction; travel-writing; and the performing arts, the book brings a new approach to the analysis of nineteenth-century French Orientalism: one that focuses on an individual civilisation rather than a generic 'Orient', looks beyond France's colonial empire, and considers the impact of genre. This results in a more nuanced picture, in which the dehumanising 'othering' famously described by Edward Said in Orientalism exists alongside examples of admiration, familiarisation, and identification. Nineteenth-century French writers tested the Occident/Orient dichotomy, emphasising it or eroding it based on the image of Iran that they sought to promote. These narratives ranged from the Aryan myth to an enthusiasm for Sufi poetry. The book also analyses the author's sources, which ranged from Persian literature, Islamic theology and Iranian cultural customs to Iranian architecture. The case of Iran thus gives us new transnational insights into nineteenth-century France's ambivalent definitions of cultural difference and their exploration in literature and the arts"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780755645596; 9780755645633
    Edition: First published in Great Britain 2024
    Subjects: French literature; Orientalism in literature; Persian literature; Literary criticism
    Scope: xiv, 280 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index