%0 Book %A Julia Szołtysek %D 2016 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9783653066845 %T A Mosaic of Misunderstanding: Occident, Orient, and Facets of Mutual Misconstrual %R 10.3726/978-3-653-06684-5 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050479 %X The book investigates relations between the ‘East’ and ‘West’ which have been forming and evolving from the Enlightenment until the present times. On the basis of material covering a selection of American, British and Turkish literature, as well as examples of Western Orientalist painting and musical (operatic) illustrations of analysed issues, the study aims to usher in a deeper and more nuanced understanding of post/colonial phenomena and their broader socio-cultural implications. The work attempts to accentuate the resonances and dissonances between various arts and disciplines, with the view to illuminating the organic nature of both inter- and intra-cultural relationships. The rationale behind such an orientation in research and methodology has not been to arrive at a final eclectic perspective, but rather, to promote a more comprehensive and diverse approach towards the ‘Other.’ %K East and West, paintings, music, postcolonial phenomena, intracultural relationships, intercultural relationships, the Other %G English