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This volume provides the student with a selection of readings from 19th and 20th-century debates on Orientalism - the theory and practice of representing the Orient in European thought - covering a range of areas including myth, imperialism, the cultural perspective, Marxist interpretation and feminist attitudes.

The influence of Eastern ideas on Western thought has become an increasingly vexed issue in recent times. Opinion is divided between two main schools: those who believe that Oriental ideas have exercised a considerable influence on Western thought, and those who, for a variety of reasons, believe that such influence has remained negligible. A. L. Macfie suggests that the reality lies somewhere between these two extremes, and that the interest ...