Beyond Orientalism: When Marceline Desbordes-Valmore carried Saʿdi’s Roses to France

saadi et le symbole de la « rose » dans le langage poétique de marceline desbordes-valmore (les roses de saadi) et de leconte de lisle (les roses d’ispahan)

cet article a pour objet de mettre en évidence le rapport entre la poésie et la langue de façon à étudier, en nous appuyant sur le traité d’aristote, de l’interprétation, la création poétique de marceline desbordes-valmore (les roses de saadi in poésies) et celle de leconte de lisle (les roses d’ispahan parus dans poèmes tragiques) passionnés par saadi ou autres poètes iraniens. en fait, le goû...

Orientalism Beyond Belief: Critiquing the Problematics of V. S. Naipaul’s Islamic Excursion

This study aims to offer a critical analysis of V. S. Naipaul’s second Islamic travelogue Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples (1998), which chronicles the author’s excursions to the 4 non-Arab Muslim countries of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. This critique is presented, firstly, through problematizing the author’s theorization on the theme of Muslim conversi...

Television and Orientalism

Orientalism, proposed by Edward Said (1995), refers to the network of interlocking discourses about the “orient” constructed in western civilization. The orients, in western conceptions, are stereotypically inflated others drastically different from the collective imagination of the civilized West. Said’s argument was initially focused more on Europe and Islamic Culture, but has been applied to...

Book Review: China and Orientalism

Free groups and roses

Consider the 2n symbols x1, . . . , xn, x−1 1 , . . . , x −1 n . Collect these into a set G. There is a map from G to itself which interchanges xi and x−1 i . This map is denoted by the usual inversion symbol g 7→ g−1. Thus x−1 i is unambiguous and (x −1 i ) −1 = xi. The empty word will be denoted by 1. A word is defined to be a finite ordered list of elements of G, depicted as exemplified by x...