TY  - BOOK
AU  - Julia Szołtysek
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653066845
TI  - A Mosaic of Misunderstanding: Occident, Orient, and Facets of Mutual Misconstrual
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-06684-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050479
N2  - 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.’
KW  - East and West, paintings, music, postcolonial phenomena, intracultural relationships, intercultural relationships, the Other
LA  - English
ER  -