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Ottoman dress & design in the West : a visual history of cultural exchange
Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the history of dress and fashion in the broader context of western relationships with the Mediterranean world from the dawn of Islam through the end of the twentieth century. The significance of dress is made apparent by the author's careful attention to its political, economic, and cultural context. The reader comes to understand that dress reflects not simply the self and one's relation to community but also that community's relation to a wider world through trade, colonization, religion, and technology. The chapters provide broad historical background on Ottoman influence and European exoticization of that influence, while the captions and illustrations provide detailed studies of illuminations, paintings, and sculptures to show how these influences were absorbed into everyday living. Through the medium of dress, Jirousek details a continually shifting Ottoman frontier that is closely tied to European and American history. In doing so, she explores and celebrates an essential source of influence that for too long has been relegated to the periphery.
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Fingierte Orientalen Erschaffen Europa
Dieser Band zeigt auf, wie im langen 18. Jahrhundert Autoren aus Italien, Frankreich, England, Spanien und dem deutschsprachigen Raum Bilder vom Nahen, Mittleren und Fernen Osten dazu nutzten, Europa in seinen kulturellen Eigenheiten zu konturieren. Orient und Okzident erscheinen aktuell immer wieder als Gegensätze, die sich gegenseitig in ihrer Existenz bedrohen. Dabei stellt das ,Andere' zugleich eine wesentliche Notwendigkeit für die Selbstdefinition dar. Diese Arbeit zeigt anhand der vergleichenden Untersuchung von 10 Werken in italienischer, französischer, englischer, spanischer und deutscher Sprache, wie eine Textsorte in besonderer Weise zur Konstruktion kultureller Identitäten beigetragen hat: Briefromane, in denen ein fiktiver Reisender aus dem Nahen, Mittleren oder Fernen Osten westeuropäische Gesellschaften an seine Landsleute beschreibt. Orient and Occident currently often appear as opposites which threaten each other. However, the ,Other' is an essential necessity for self-definition. This volume reveals how in the Enlightenment, authors from Italy, France, England, Spain and the German speaking area base themselves on images from the Near, Middle and Far East to define Europe in its cultural particularities. They use a very concrete literary genre: epistolary novels in which a fictitious Oriental traveller describes West European societies to his compatriots.
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Ottoman dress & design in the West : a visual history of cultural exchange
Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the history of dress and fashion in the broader context of western relationships with the Mediterranean world from the dawn of Islam through the end of the twentieth century. The significance of dress is made apparent by the author's careful attention to its political, economic, and cultural context. The reader comes to understand that dress reflects not simply the self and one's relation to community but also that community's relation to a wider world through trade, colonization, religion, and technology. The chapters provide broad historical background on Ottoman influence and European exoticization of that influence, while the captions and illustrations provide detailed studies of illuminations, paintings, and sculptures to show how these influences were absorbed into everyday living. Through the medium of dress, Jirousek details a continually shifting Ottoman frontier that is closely tied to European and American history. In doing so, she explores and celebrates an essential source of influence that for too long has been relegated to the periphery.
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East West Mimesis
East West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe. She challenges the notion of exile as synonymous with intellectual isolation and shows the reciprocal effects of German émigrés on Turkey's humanist reform movement. By making literary critical concepts productive for our understanding of Turkish cultural history, the book provides a new approach to the study of East-West relations.
Central to the book is Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, written in Istanbul after he fled Germany in 1936. Konuk draws on some of Auerbach's key concepts-figura as a way of conceptualizing history andmimesis as a means of representing reality-to show how Istanbul shapedMimesis and to understand Turkey's humanist reform movement as a type of cultural mimesis.
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