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| Esotericism and Orientalism: Nineteenth-century narrative initiations | ||
| 作者 | Dubey, Mandakini |
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| 出版日期 | 2003 |
| 頁次 | 237 |
| 出版者 | Duke University |
| 出版者網址 | http://duke.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Durham, NC, US [德罕, 北卡羅來納州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | Duke University |
| 指導教授 | Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky |
| 畢業年度 | 2003 |
| 關鍵詞 | Esotericism; Orientalism; Narrative; Nineteenth century; Rudyard Kipling; Kipling; Rudyard; Richard Burton; Burton; Richard |
| 摘要 | This dissertation examines Victorian representations of "Oriental" religions in literary, occultist, and academic texts, arguing that the Orientalist study of religion generated new theories of textuality, subjectivity, identity, and sexuality in Victorian culture. It suggests that esotericism played a key role in nineteenth-century Orientalist encounters with traditions like Sufism, Buddhism, and Vedanta: for instance, esoteric movements like Theosophy led the reception of these religions, which were described as esoteric in Orientalist texts. Moreover, the hermeneutical work of esotericism (the encrypted meaning that can only be deciphered by initiated readers, the further initiations that obtain from deciphering such encryptions) offers an apt heuristic for the multitudinous meanings and deployments of Oriental religions in Victorian literature and culture. Esotericism reveals the many ways in which religion plays hide and seek with race, sexuality, language, and nation in the texts and contexts of Orientalism. |
| 點閱次數 | 697 |
| 建檔日期 | 2005.09.23 |
| 更新日期 | 2016.03.02 |
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