Têtes de Turcs : une étude comparée des représentations des grands seigneurs et des Turcs dans la France de L'Ancien Régime
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The figure of "the Turk" entered the French literary scene in the sixteenth century but its presence increased from the early years of Louis XIV's reign. Thanks to a multiplication of trading contracts, political alliances, and diplomatic missions to Constantinople, citizens of the Ottoman Empire took rapid hold of the French imagination. It is commonly thought, especially in the wake of Edward Saïd's work, that this imagination had a vested interest in portraying "the Turk" as inferior, weak, and irrational. In fact, however, literary representations of Ottoman Turks in seventeenth century took a very different tack, presenting them in a manner almost identical to representations of a figure that was itself becoming increasingly exotic in the seventeenth century: that of the warrior noble/ Feudal lord. "The Turk" was in fact no more cruel, passionate or generous than the warrior noble; the warrior noble was no more fierce, strong, or heroic than "the Turk." In this dissertation we intend to demonstrate this connection, thus raising a crucial objection to Saïd's thesis, and also to investigate the reasons for the striking correlation in modes of representation for two human types we might expect to have been considered antithetical.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Calefas-Strebelle, Audrey |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of French & Italian. |
| Primary advisor | Edelstein, Dan |
| Thesis advisor | Edelstein, Dan |
| Thesis advisor | Apostolidès, Jean-Marie |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Serres, Michel |
| Advisor | Apostolidès, Jean-Marie |
| Advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Advisor | Serres, Michel |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Audrey Calefas Stanford. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of French and Italian Literature. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2012 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Audrey Calefas-Strebelle
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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