"What Said's Orientalism exposes — Western literary representations of the East as a form of cultural domination."
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"What Said's Orientalism exposes — Western literary representations of the East as a form of cultural domination."
Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' asks
Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' questions if marginalized voices can be heard within dominant discourse
The Cantos
The Cantos includes Chinese characters and quotations in multiple languages
New Criticism
New Criticism focused on the poem as an autonomous object
the Romantics (Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley) elevated
Romantics valued imagination and feeling over reason and convention
Cubism
Cubism shatters Renaissance single-point perspective by depicting subjects from multiple viewpoints
War and Peace
Tolstoy's War and Peace argues that history is shaped by events, not great men
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