THE EXOTIC JOURNEY DURING THE ROMANTIC PERIOD THE REVERSE ROUTE, FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST Cover Image

CĂLĂTORIA EXOTICĂ ÎN EPOCA ROMANTICĂ TRASEUL INVERS, DINSPRE ORIENT SPRE OCCIDENT
THE EXOTIC JOURNEY DURING THE ROMANTIC PERIOD THE REVERSE ROUTE, FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST

Author(s): Ana-Mihaela Istrate
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Romantic travel; Montesquieu; Egyptian travelers in Europe; feminine exoticism;

Summary/Abstract: During the Romantic period Orientalism meant a process of bringing to the forefront of fragments of a different type of everyday life, where the individual is dressed in unusual attire, characterized as exotic, while the woman is dressed in long vaporous clothes, covering her face, surrounding her personality with an aura of mistery.Less interesting from the perspective of the comparative approach, but extremely important for the epoch individual, is the travel of the Eastern man towards the West. The present study represents a comparative analysis of the most important travel journals of the Egyptian writers, during the Roamntic period, a reverse trajectory, from the East to the West, an attenpt to overturn a mirror, through which the Ro9mantic epoch man analyses the most imprtant cultural models.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2018
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 233-241
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian