Feminist critiques often focus on this work's discussion of the short story "Herodias" and Gustave Flaubert's encounter with Kuchuk Hanem.
This work notes that the central subject must be considered as a "discourse" in the sense defined by Foucault and arising from a dynamic created by Edward Lane and Louis Massignon. The author of this work repeatedly identifies as a humanist, vilifies Ernest Renan, and largely avoids examdining German and Russian forms of the central subject. Feminist critiques often focus on this work's discussion of the short story "Herodias" and Gustave Flaubert's encounter with Kuchuk Hanem. This work sparked a vitriolic debate in The New York Review of Books between the author and Bernard Lewis, identified as the leading modern practitioner of the academic form of the central subject, which it defines as a politically-charged power relationship ultimately serving imperialism. Declaring that accounts from men like Lord Byron and Napoleon have led to the West's false conceptualization of the Middle East, for 10 points, identify this landmark 1978 work by Edward Said.
This work notes that the central subject must be considered as a "discourse" in the sense defined by Foucault and arising from a dynamic created by Edward Lane and Louis Massignon.
Orientalism