l'orient et la perse ont été au centre de l'attention des  voyageurs européens qui parcouraient le monde pour connaître  l'autre monde. à ce propos, l'altérité qui est l'étude de ce qui est autre et l'image que les étrangers proposent pour cet ailleurs et ces peuples, occupent une place remarquable dans la littérature. des récits de voyage, en tant que le fruit du voyageur contiennent des inf...

james morier’s the adventures of hajji baba of ispahan is among works in which traces of the new wave of colonialism at the beginning of the 19th century are clearly evident, a colonialism which, fortified by the newly-established discourse of orientalism, employed literary texts as building blocks to expand and buttress authority and dominance of the west over the east. this paper attempts to ...

The Western fascination with Persia, intensified though it was by the nineteenth century obsession with Indo-European languages, extends back into the classical origins of European culture. As Edward Said notes, Aeschylus' The Persians demonstrates how deeply embedded in the European mind is the belief in Persia's quintessential status as an Oriental society. For many Orientalists Persia demons...

among french writers, pierre loti was a of rare ones who, because of his position as a navigation officer, traveled around the world and visited many countries and enjoyed other peoples’ customs. mixing his fine and detailed observations of these real travels to his poetic imagination, he wrote unique stories in an agreeable prose. loti is not unknown in iran. though he is generally considered ...