Politics, Aesthetics and Quest in British Travel Writing on the Middle East

Nash, Geoffrey

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“…As explained above, one aspect of Browne's Romantic approach to the culture of Iran is his support for Babi religion and Bahai faith as its main branch. Regarding the infatuation of Browne with the Babi religion Nash (2006)…”

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Orientalism on the Margins: Inter-Subjective Space in Edward Granville Browne’s A Year amongst the Persians

Pinak

Lalbakhsh

2019

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The aim of the present study is to analyse the image of Iran, created by E. G. Browne (1862-1926) in his travelogue A Year amongst the Persians. In his representation, Browne vacillates between two poles of Romantic and scientific discourses. On the one hand, he is a Romantic wanderer, who embarks on a quest of Departure, Initiation and Return in the space of the Other (Campbell, 2004, p. 28). Based on such an idealistic perspective, in his one year quest in Iran which is mainly spend among the marginalized believers of the Bahai faith, Browne (1893) seeks for a rebirth of the decaying Iranian nation, "which slumbers, but is not dead"(p. 219). On the other hand, Browne (1893) regards himself as an "inquirer" who in his observations maintains a detached scientific perspective towards Iranian culture and society, and does not hesitate to question the principles which he finds unacceptable (p. 529). In the course of his journey, the tension between these two discourses leads to a subversion of both of them, which finally mirrors in a breakdown of Browne's conception of Self and the Other. Browne's recognition of the Self and the Iranian nation, at the end of his journey is through the space of inter-subjectivity. This final state of in-betweenness makes it possible for him to recognize the Other from the perspective of cultural difference, through which a possibility is created in his image of Iran to escape the "urge to possess" that the Orientalist discourse of travel writing entails.

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Orientalism on the Margins: Inter-Subjective Space in Edward Granville Browne’s A Year amongst the Persians

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Lalbakhsh

2019

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“…Różne były powody wyjazdów w XIX wieku -od estetycznych (wpływ zafascynowanego Orientem romantyzmu, poszukiwanie egzotyki), religijnych, przez ciekawość naukową, aż po chęć ucieczki od świata czy osadnictwo 10 . Nie ulega wątpliwości, że opisy te miewały także cele połączone ściśle z polityką kolonialną.…”

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Opisy podróży na Bliski Wschód i do Afryki Północnej z lat 1801–1919 w zbiorach Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Jakubowski

2022

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Artykuł dotyczy XIX-wiecznych opisów podróży na arabski Bliski Wschód i do Afryki Północnej, przechowywanych w zbiorach Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. W większości znajdują się one w Bibliotece Uniwersyteckiej, część w bibliotekach wydziałowych. Kolekcja ta, choć nie powstała w sposób celowy, składa się z 250 tytułów w ośmiu językach, z czego dwie trzecie to pozycje niemieckojęzyczne. Najwięcej książek pochodzi z Kaiser Wilhelm Bibliothek w Poznaniu. Kolekcja odzwierciedla rozwój tego gatunku piśmiennictwa w Europie w XIX wieku i pokazuje jego różnorodność.

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“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)

Malečková¹

2021

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Politics, Aesthetics and Quest in British Travel Writing on the Middle East

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Orientalism on the Margins: Inter-Subjective Space in Edward Granville Browne’s A Year amongst the Persians

Orientalism on the Margins: Inter-Subjective Space in Edward Granville Browne’s A Year amongst the Persians

Opisy podróży na Bliski Wschód i do Afryki Północnej z lat 1801–1919 w zbiorach Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

“The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)

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