Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation by Joey S. Kim - 9781399511261

Romanticism and the Poetics of OrientationAuthor(s): Joey S. Kim\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399511261, 978-1399511261\nSynopsis\nWhat happens when we redirect our lines of reading along new lines, borders, and orientationsthose that fail to fit neatly into the cardinal directions of North, South, East, and West? What is, who stands for, and where exactly is the \""Orient\"" in British Romantic poetry? To where does the \""Orient\"" lead? Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation responds by tracing shifting orientationscultural, geographical, aesthetic, racial, and gendered through Orientalist sites, subjects, and settings. Kim coins the term \""poetics of orientation\"" to describe a poetics newly aware of cultural difference as a site of aesthetic contestation. She focuses on the contestation that occurs at the site of the lyric subject. A \""poetics of orientation\"", rather than situating t.