| The Exotic: A Decadent Quest Contributor(s): Figueira, Dorothy M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791416291 ISBN-13: 9780791416297 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: 809.91 |
| LCCN: 94001591 |
| Series: Suny Series, the Margins of Literature |
| Physical Information: (1.28 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Figueira (comparative literature, U. of Illinois) identifies how the Gadamerian concept of prejudice in the form of specific exotic clichTs elucidates the dynamics of exoticism, while tracing Sanskrit studies in the West, focusing on 19th-century German, French, and English scholarship and also touching on 20th-century associations between Indo-Ger |