Lord Byron’s Oriental World

The book is a collection of eleven articles written by the author about Lord Byron’s personal and literary involvement in Oriental life and creativity. Byron’s genuine Oriental scholarship provides the platform upon which the articles are based. The authentic images of the East and the West in Byron’s Oriental tales and some of his major works, Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, are analyzed to expose the influences of both worlds on his personal life and career.

Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC

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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-0157-9

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Publication Status: In Print

Series: Gorgias Ottoman Travelers 7

Publication Date: Dec 13,2011

Interior Color: Black

Trim Size: 6 x 9

Page Count: 192

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-0157-9

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The book is a collection of eleven articles about Lord Byron’s personal and literary involvement in Oriental life and creativity. Byron’s genuine Oriental scholarship provides the platform upon which the articles are based. The authentic images of the East and the West in Byron’s Oriental tales and some of his major works, Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, are analyzed to expose the influences of both worlds on his personal life and career.

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	Contributor	Biography
	Naji Oueijan	A graduate of Baylor University, TX, USA (1985), Naji B. Oueijan (PhD) is Full Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, Lebanon. President of the Lebanese Byron Society; Member of the Board of Directors of the International Council of the Byron Societies and several other literary societies. Research interests include Byronism, Orientalism, Romanticism, East-West Cultural Dialogue, and Lebanese-American Writers. His Publications include eight books, one of which is "A compendium of Eastern Elements in Byron's Oriental Tales," (Peter Lang, 1999), and many articles published world wide.

Dedication (page 5)
Table of Contents (page 7)
Foreword (page 9)
Acknowledgments (page 17)
Abbreviations (page 19)
Introduction (page 21)
Byrons Eastern Quests: The Liberation of Self (page 29)
Byron and Olympia (page 41)
Byrons Virtual Tour of Lebanon (page 51)
Western Exoticism and Byrons Orientalism (page 65)
Islam and Christianity in Byrons The Giaour (page 75)
Byrons Eastern Literary Portraits (page 91)
Byrons Eastern Bride (page 105)
Byron and Sufism (page 117)
Byron, Delacroix and the Oriental Sublime (page 129)
Byrons Overpowering Sexual and Spiritual Identity (page 139)
Byron, DHerbelot and Oriental Culture (page 147)
Lord Byron and Ameen F. Rihani (page 155)
Conclusion: Lord Byrons Universality (page 167)
Bibliography (page 177)
Index (page 187)