%0 Book %A Adam Bednarczyk %A Magdalena Kubarek %A Maciej Szatkowski %D 2017 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9783631720363 %T Rethinking Orient %B In Search of Sources and Inspirations %R 10.3726/b10974 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055077 %X The contributions in this book address a vast variety of questions concerning the sources and mutual inspirations in Oriental and European literatures. The authors discuss selected texts from both historical and synchronic perspectives. They reveal and scrutinise the sedimented layers in their search for the original as well as for the repetitive and universal. The book revolves around the creative reception of one’s own cultural heritage and of works which originated in other cultures. %K Literature, Asia-Africa, European literature, Comparative literature, Translation studies, Intertextuality %G English