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Encounters with cultural difference: Cosmopolitanism and exoticism in Tanna (Martin Butler and Bentley Dean, 2015) and Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015)

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2018
This essay aims to critically reassess and, ultimately, rehabilitate exoticism, understood as a particular mode of cultural representation and a highly contested discourse on cultural difference, by bringing it into dialogue with cosmopolitanism.
Daniela Berghahn
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An illusion of exoticism

Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies
The aim of this article is to describe the evolution of the perception of Africa, especially the Sub-Saharan part, and its inhabitants in Poland between 1945 and 1989 on the basis of official documents, literary sources, and memoirs.
Błażej Popławski
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Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J. A. Leite Moraes in Amazonia [PDF]

Ilha do Desterro, 2009
Exotic science and domestic exoticism: Theodore Roosevelt and J. A.
Renata Wasserman
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The Effects of Exotism on Romantic Period Operas and Symphonic Suites

Konservatoryum, 2021
As unknown lands were discovered in the 15th and 16th centuries because long-distance sea voyages became possible, Europe became increasingly interested in the exotic East. People in the West were attracted through the power of their imaginations to more
Zeynep Simge Acunaz Eytemiz
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Imagology in comparative literature : Knowing yourself from another perspective [PDF]

مطالعات بین‌رشته‌ای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانی, 2021
Imagology in Comparative Literature: Knowing the Self from the Other's Perspective   Abstract:   The present paper examines imagology in comparative literature. Imagology is one of the most important and rooted areas in comparative literature since it is
Hamideh Lotfinia
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Dénaturaliser et repolitiser la catastrophe par-delà les clichés ? Lecture critique de la série photographique Portraits submergés de G. Mendel

M@ppemonde, 2021
The series Submerged Portraits by photographer Gideon Mendel portrays mostly powerless and passive inhabitants in a variety of flooded places across the globe. The photographer’s goal was to raise awareness concerning humanity’s generalised vulnerability
Alexis Metzger, Pauline Guinard
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Introduction: Reframing Exoticism in European Literature

, 2022
When editing the previous issue of Working Papers in the Humanities, that investigated ‘The Sacred in the Secular in European Literature’, we had to remark on the hegemonic centrality of Christianity in the yet noticeably diverse approaches adopted and ...
McIntyre, Hannah, Dellacasa, Claudia
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Victor Segalen's Chinese "exoticism" [PDF]

, 2023
The bachelor 's thesis will focus on the relationship to "exotic" China in the work of Victor Segalen. It is based on his own reflections on exoticism, as these reflections are formulated in his Essay on Exoticism (1978), as well as on his poetry ...
Marková, Josefína
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漢字圏の地域におけるパッケージデザインで使用する書体の印象と高級感に関する研究 [PDF]

, 2023
岩手大学博士（芸術工学）原著論文 Yaoming Huang, Hanyu Lin, Peng Jiang, Takamitsu Tanaka: The Relationship Between Luxury and Exoticism in Chinese Characters, Design Research, 88, 14-20, 2024doctoral ...
黃, 耀明, HUANG, Yao-Ming
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Review of Ralph Locke. 2009. Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press

Current Musicology, 2009
Western artists, writers, and scholars have long used images to represent the exotic Other. In 1835, the French writer and poet Alphonse de Lamartine entitled his travelogue Souvenirs, impressions, pensees et paysages, pendant un voyage en Orient (1832 ...
Kristy Riggs
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