The two volumes deal with the representation of the Orient as an imaginary space and privileged topos in European literature and art from the 18th to 20th centuries. Rather than analyzing the different aspects of the theme from a sociological or historical point of view the essays focus on an "oriental effect" achieved through rhetorical strategies which can make themes, images, and narratives appear to be exotic. The “Introduction” to the second volume examines the crisis of the exotic fin-de-siècle model and its hybridisation, the experimentalism and the new writing models of the early 20th century; models which the far Eastern countries of China and Japan supply with an “ideogrammatic” system.
Effetti d'Oriente nel Novecento
INNOCENTI, Loretta
2007-01-01
Abstract
The two volumes deal with the representation of the Orient as an imaginary space and privileged topos in European literature and art from the 18th to 20th centuries. Rather than analyzing the different aspects of the theme from a sociological or historical point of view the essays focus on an "oriental effect" achieved through rhetorical strategies which can make themes, images, and narratives appear to be exotic. The “Introduction” to the second volume examines the crisis of the exotic fin-de-siècle model and its hybridisation, the experimentalism and the new writing models of the early 20th century; models which the far Eastern countries of China and Japan supply with an “ideogrammatic” system.
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