Orientalism, Volume 10A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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... texts one such notion of inaugural delimitation is Louis Althusser's idea of the problematic , a specific determinate unity of a text , or group of texts , which is something given rise to by analysis . 12 Yet in the case of Orientalism ...
... texts one such notion of inaugural delimitation is Louis Althusser's idea of the problematic , a specific determinate unity of a text , or group of texts , which is something given rise to by analysis . 12 Yet in the case of Orientalism ...
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... texts constituting a discursive formation like Orientalism . The unity of the large ensemble of texts I analyze is due in part to the fact that they ' frequently refer to each other : Orientalism is after all a system for * citing works ...
... texts constituting a discursive formation like Orientalism . The unity of the large ensemble of texts I analyze is due in part to the fact that they ' frequently refer to each other : Orientalism is after all a system for * citing works ...
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... texts - say ; to apply what one learns out of a book literally to reality is to risk folly or ruin . One would no more think of using Amadis of Gaul to understand sixteenth - century ( or present - day ) Spain than one would use the ...
... texts - say ; to apply what one learns out of a book literally to reality is to risk folly or ruin . One would no more think of using Amadis of Gaul to understand sixteenth - century ( or present - day ) Spain than one would use the ...
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