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Fables of the East Selected Tales 1662-1785
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Description
The selection has been devised to call attention to the diversity in the ways that different oriental cultures are represented to English readers. Readers of this anthology will be able to identify a contrast between the luxury, excess, and sexuality associated with Islamic Turkey, Persia, and Mughal India and the wisdom, restraint, and authority invested in Brahmin India and Confucian China. Fables of the East redraws the cultural map we have inherited of the eighteenth century, demonstrating contemporary interest in gentile and 'idolatrous' religions, in Confucianism and Buddhism especially, and that the construction of the Orient in the western imagination was not exclusively one of an Islamic Near and Middle East.
Ros Ballster's introduction addresses the importance of the idea of 'fable' to traditions of narrative and representations of the East. Each text is accompanied by explanatory head and footnotes, also provided is a glossary of oriental terms and places that were familiar to the texts' eighteenth-century readers.
Product details
- Number of Pages:
- 286
- Release Date:
- 2005-11-18
- Publication Date:
- 2005-10-20
- Publisher:
- OUP Oxford
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0199267340
- ISBN13:
- 9780199267347
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 538 g
- Height:
- 14.5 cm
- Width:
- 22.2 cm
- Thickness:
- 2 cm
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