Benjamin Disraeli, Romantic Orientalist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2108328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ivan Kalmár (0000-0002-7859-3649, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Ivan Davidson Kalmar |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 348-371 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417505000162 |
| OpenAlex | W2090773366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Of Edward Said's many passions, Joseph Conrad was among the most persistent. That a Polish-English writer of nineteenth-century colonial fiction should be the hero of the author of Orientalism might challenge those, among both Said's friends and enemies, who misread his work as a condemnation of major Western writers and thinkers who shared their period's Eurocentric prejudice. Said fully recognized Conrad's 'uncompromising Eurocentric vision,' yet discovered in it, perhaps paradoxically, a 'felt tension between what is intolerably there and a symmetrical compulsion to escape from it.' With the passage of time, what speaks to us is not Conrad's prejudices, but the way his texts 'brush up unstintingly against historical constraints
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · HERO · Literature · Orientalism · Passions · Period (music) · Political science · Prejudice (legal term) · Romance · History · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |