Orientalist Paintings and said Orientalism

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...

musical and orientalist elaborations: edward said on music

this paper examines edward said’s views on music and its connection with key concepts such as orientalism and worldliness in his writings. it is suggested that to see the importance of classical western music as a key component of western culture in said’s work, one has to take into account the centrality of culture in his critical views and the stress he puts on its complicity with western imp...

Television and Orientalism

Orientalism, proposed by Edward Said (1995), refers to the network of interlocking discourses about the “orient” constructed in western civilization. The orients, in western conceptions, are stereotypically inflated others drastically different from the collective imagination of the civilized West. Said’s argument was initially focused more on Europe and Islamic Culture, but has been applied to...

Book Review: China and Orientalism

Gustave Alexandre Liétard, orientalist and physician.

IN 1972 the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine acquired an important collection of letters, reprints, and manuscripts belonging to Dr. Lietard of Plombieres. This collection gives an interesting insight to the thinking of medical historians interested in traditional oriental medicine during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, and giv...