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The exotic : a decadent quest / Dorothy M. Figueira.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series, the margins of literaturePublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058507660X
  • 9780585076607
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exotic.DDC classification:
  • 809/.91 20
LOC classification:
  • PN871 .F62 1994eb
Other classification:
  • 02.01
  • 15.07
  • 15.77
  • 17.92
Online resources:
Partial contents:
pt. I. Exoticism: Model for Inspiration or Alibi for Despair? 1. The Dynamics of Exoticism: Herder's Epigram and Gunderrode's Epitaph. 2. Rationalist Heroes and Irrational Victims: Satis, Bayaderas, and Pariahs -- pt. II. The Politics of Language and the Politics of Exoticism. 3. The Politics of Exoticism: Friedrich Schlegel's Metaphorical Pilgrimage to India. 4. Scholarly Collusion and the Ethos of Despair: The Initial Reception of the Bhagavad Gita -- pt. III. The Poetics of Despair: Irrational Responses to Exoticism. 5. The German Quest for Nirvana. 6. Neantisme. 7. Indian Thought and the Formation of Aryan Ideology: Aryans, Tschandalen, and the Lunatic Fringe.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index.

pt. I. Exoticism: Model for Inspiration or Alibi for Despair? 1. The Dynamics of Exoticism: Herder's Epigram and Gunderrode's Epitaph. 2. Rationalist Heroes and Irrational Victims: Satis, Bayaderas, and Pariahs -- pt. II. The Politics of Language and the Politics of Exoticism. 3. The Politics of Exoticism: Friedrich Schlegel's Metaphorical Pilgrimage to India. 4. Scholarly Collusion and the Ethos of Despair: The Initial Reception of the Bhagavad Gita -- pt. III. The Poetics of Despair: Irrational Responses to Exoticism. 5. The German Quest for Nirvana. 6. Neantisme. 7. Indian Thought and the Formation of Aryan Ideology: Aryans, Tschandalen, and the Lunatic Fringe.

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