单词 | orientalism |
释义 | orientalismn. 1. Oriental style or quality; the character, customs, etc., of oriental nations; an oriental trait, feature, or idiom. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > eastern people > eastern style, character, or quality orientalism1747 orientality1761 1747 J. Spence Ess. Pope's Odyssey (ed. 3) 189 This whole prophetical vision of the fall of the suitors..gives us an higher Orientalism than we meet with in any other part of Homer's writings. You will pardon me a new word, where we have no old one to my purpose: You know what I mean, that Eastern way of expressing revolutions in government, by a confusion or extinction of light in the heavens. 1768 E. Holdsworth Remarks & Diss. Virgil 265 There are frequent instances of the very same orientalism in Homer. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1775) I. i. 17 Dragons are a sure mark of orientalism. 1807 F. Wrangham Serm. Transl. Script. 25 The sublime orientalisms of Job. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlix. 500 The Orientalism which had pervaded the court. 1877 S. J. Owen in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches Introd. p. xliv The beauty of the style, unimpaired..by the amalgam of infusible Orientalisms. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man ii. i. 198 All those who were spinning thinner and thinner threads of thought out of the transcendentalism of Plato or the orientalism of Pythagoras. 1980 Newsweek (Nexis) 18 Aug. 85 Sellers, as always, makes elegant play with the character's improbable Orientalisms. 2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) (Nexis) 26 Nov. 70 Occasional touches of faux-Bollywood orientalism keep things up-to-the-minute. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [noun] > scholarship or knowledge of orientalism1812 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II Notes 147 Mr. T.'s frequent hints of profound Orientalism. 3. The representation of the Orient (esp. the Middle East) in Western academic writing, art, or literature; spec. this representation perceived as stereotyped or exoticizing and therefore embodying a colonialistic attitude. ΚΠ 1978 E. W. Said Orientalism Introd. 3 Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient..by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient. 1992 J. A. Walker Gloss. Art, Archit. & Design (ed. 3) §483 Critics of Orientalism argue that the representations were mythical and an aspect of European colonialism. 2002 New Internationalist May 23/2 The real problem with Orientalism and the authority it gives to Western experts on Islam and Muslim affairs is not that it is knowledge, but that it is knowledge that does not appreciate it is wrong. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1747 |
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