Reflections on exile and other essays /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Table of Contents:
- Labyrinth of incarnations: the esays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Sense and sensibility: on R.P. Blackmur, Georges Poulet, and E.D. Hirsch
- Amateur of the insoluble: on E.M. Cioran
- A standing civil war: on T.E. Lawrence
- Arabic prose and prose fiction after 1948
- Between chance and determinism: Lukács's Aesthetik
- Conrad and Nietzsche
- Vico on the discipline of bodies and texts
- Tourism among the dogs: on George Orwell
- Bitter dispatches from the Third World
- Grey Eminence: on Walter Lippmann
- Among the believers: on V.S. Naipaul
- Opponents, audiences, constituencies, and community
- Bursts of meaning: on John Berger and Jean Mohr
- Egyptian rites
- The future of criticism
- Reflections on exile
- Michel Foucault, 1927-1984
- Orientalism reconsidered
- Remembrances of things played: presence and memory in the pianist's art: on Glenn Gould
- How not to get gored: on Ernest Hemingway
- Foucault and the imagination of power
- The horizon of R.P. Blackmur
- Cairo recalled: growing up in the cultural crosscurrents of 1940s Egypt
- Through gringo eyes: with Conrad in Latin America
- The quest for Gillo Pontecorvo
- Representing the colonized: anthropology's interlocutors
- After Mahfouz
- Jungle calling: on Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan
- Cairo and Alexandria
- Homage to a belly-dancer: on Tahia Carioca
- Introduction to Moby-Dick
- The politics of knowledge
- Identity, authority, and freedom: the potentate and the traveler
- The Anglo-Arab encounter: on Ahdaf Soueif
- Nationalism, human rights, and interpretation
- Traveling theory reconsidered
- History, literature, and geography
- Contra mundum: on Eric Hobsbawm
- Bach's genius, Schumann's eccentricity, Chopin's ruthlessness, Rosen's gift
- Fantasy's role in the making of nations: on Jacqueline Rose
- On defiance and taking positions
- From silence to sound and back again: music, literature, and history
- On lost causes
- Between worlds
- The clash of definitions: on Samuel Huntington.