Between East and West
Subtitle: Polish and Russian nineteenth-century travel to the Orient
By: Izabela Kalinowska.
Series: Rochester studies in Central Europe,
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Mickiewicz, Adam, 1798-1855; Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837 -- Criticism and interpretation; Polish literature -- 19th century -- Asian influences; Russian literature -- 19th century -- Asian influences; Orientalism in literature; Poles -- Travel -- Orient -- History -- 19th century; Russians -- Travel -- Orient -- History -- 19th century; Orientalism; Orient -- In literature; Orient -- Description and travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index.
Table of contents: title: Travel, orientalism, and East-West dialogue in Adam Mickiewicz's sonnets; title: Polish nineteenth-century travel to the Orient : scholarship, poetry, politics; title: Empire in the background : Russian oriental travel from Crimea to the Holy Land; title: Aleksandr Pushkin's Caucasian cycle : from the Orient back to Russia.