The Exotic: A Decadent Quest

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

About the author

Dorothy M. Figueira is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. She is the author of several books, including Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity; The Exotic: A Decadent Quest; and Translating the Orient: The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe, all published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy M. Figueira
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1994
• EAN: 9780791416297
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1629-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Weight: 581 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Hegelian Studie; SUNY Series in Hegelian Studie; Suny Series, the Margins of Li
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education