This study reveals how Enlightenment writers use exotic encounters, real and imagined, as a stage for criticizing their home culture and for examining the limitations on their ability—through literature—to step outside of that home culture. If self-critique is the ultimate goal …
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In this dissertation, I propose a new understanding of the relationship between the inhabitants of the metropole and the colonies, by showing how a number of major Twentieth-Century French and Francophone authors depict technology as a mediator, both productive and destructive, …
The category of the exotic has been an important generator of homoerotic images in the cinema. Under the guise of an ethnographic or aestheticizing gaze, cinematic images have centered on the body of the "exotic" (i.e., non-Western) male as the object of homoerotic desire. There…
Since its creation, Eugène Bozza’s (1905–1991) music has enjoyed generous acclaim among wind musicians in terms of both performance and scholarship. Yet, due to its position within a number of related areas of neglect in musicology, musicologists have afforded it scant attention…
In Western art music, exoticism—simply defined as the representation or the evocation of foreign culture in music or art—has dated long before the nineteenth century. Evidence from scholarly literature points out that composers as early as the Renaissance actively sought inspira…