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SAID  \nGRANTA  \nTo the memory of F. W. Dupee  \nSeveral of the essays in this book appeared in Raritan Review, The London Review of Books, and Critical Inquiry. I am particularly grateful to their respective editors, and to my good friends, Richard Poirier, Mary-Kay Wilmers, and Tom Mitchell, for their support and care. As always, I am indebted tomy assistant, Dr. Zaineb Istrabadi, for her help in producing this book as well as many of its essays as they originally appeared.  \nE. W. S.  \nNew York City June 2000  \nTitle Page  \nDedication  \nAcknowledgments  \nIntroduction  \n1. Labyrinth of Incarnations: The Essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty  \n2. Sense and Sensibility  \nOn R. P. Blackmur, Georges Poulet, andE. D. Hirsch  \n3. Amateur of the Insoluble On E. M. Cioran  \n4. A Standing Civil War On T. E. Lawrence  \n5 Arabic Prose and Prose Fiction After 1948  \n6 Between Chance and Determinism: Lukács ’s Aesthetik  \n7 Conrad and Nietzsche  \n8 Vico on the Discipline of Bodies and Texts  \n9 Tourism among the Dogs  \nOn George Orwell  \n10 Bitter Dispatches from the Third World  \n11 Grey Eminence  \nOn Walter Lippmann  \n12 Among the Believers On V. S. Naipaul  \n13 Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community  \n14 Bursts of Meaning  \nOn John Berger and Jean Mohr  \n15 Egyptian Rites  \n16 The Future of Criticism  \n17 Reflections on Exile  \n18 Michel Foucault, 1927–1984  \n19 Orientalism Reconsidered  \n20 Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist’s Art On Glenn Gould  \n21 How Not to Get Gored  \nOn Ernest Hemingway  \n22 Foucault and the Imagination of Power  \n23 The Horizon of R. P. Blackmur  \n24 Cairo Recalled: Growing Up in the Cultural Crosscurrents of 1940s Egypt  \n25 Through Gringo Eyes: With Conrad in Latin America  \n26 The Quest for Gillo Pontecorvo  \n27 Representing the Colonized: Anthropology’s Interlocutors  \n28 After Mahfouz  \n29 Jungle Calling  \nOn Johnny Weissmuller s’ Tarzan  \n30 Cairo and Alexandria  \n31 Homage to a Belly-Dance  \nOn Tahia Carioca  \n32 Introduction to Moby-Dick  \n33 The Politics of Knowledge  \n34 Identity, Authority, and Freedom: The Potentate and the Traveler  \n35 The Anglo-Arab Encounter  \nOn AhdafSoueif  \n36 Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation  \n37 Traveling Theory Reconsidered  \n38 History, Literature, and Geography  \n39 Contra Mundum  \nOn Eric Hobsbawm  \n40 Bach’s Genius, Schumann’s Eccentricity, Chopin’s Ruthlessness, Rosen’s Gift  \n41 Fantasy’s Role in the Making of Nations  \nOn Jacqueline Rose  \n42 On Defiance and Taking Positions  \n43 From Silence to Sound and Back Again: Music, Literature, and History  \n44 On Lost Causes  \n45 Between Worlds  \n46 The Clash of Definitions  \nOn Samuel Huntington  \nCredits  \nIndex  \nAlso By Edward W. Said Copyright  \nINTRODUCTION: CRITICISM AND EXILE  \nWritten over a period of roughly thirty-five years, these essays constitute some of the intellectual results of teaching and studying in one academic institution, Columbia University in New York. I arrived there fresh from graduate school in the fall of 1963 and, as of this writing, I am still there as a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. Aside from this abbreviated testimonial to my deep satisfaction for such a long time in the place—the American university generally being for its academic staff and many of its students the last remaining utopia—it is the fact of New York that plays an important role in the kind of criticism and interpretation which I have done, and of which this book is a kind of record. Restless, turbulent, unceasingly various, energetic, unsettling, resistant, and absorptive, New York today is what Paris was a hundred years ago, the capital of our time. It may seem paradoxical and even willful to add that the city’s centrality is due to its eccentricity and the peculiar mix of its attributes, but I think that that is so. This is not always a positive or comforting thing, and for a resident ","cbCaib3MVA7m973A","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib3MVA7m973A","pdf",2813543,421,"English","# Introduction: Criticism and Exile\n## Labyrinth of Incarnations: The Essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty\n## Sense and Sensibility\n## Amateur of the Insoluble\n## A Standing Civil War\n## Arabic Prose and Prose Fiction After 1948\n## Between Chance and Determinism: Lukács’s Aesthetik\n## Conrad and Nietzsche\n## Vico on the Discipline of Bodies and Texts\n## Tourism among the Dogs\n## Bitter Dispatches from the Third World\n## Grey Eminence\n## Among the Believers\n## Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community\n## Bursts of Meaning\n## Egyptian Rites\n## The Future of Criticism\n## Reflections on Exile\n## Michel Foucault, 1927–1984\n## Orientalism Reconsidered\n## Remembrances of Things Played\n## How Not to Get Gored\n## Foucault and the Imagination of Power\n## The Horizon of R. P. Blackmur\n## Cairo Recalled\n## Through Gringo Eyes\n## The Quest for Gillo Pontecorvo\n## Representing the Colonized\n## After Mahfouz\n## Jungle Calling\n## Cairo and Alexandria\n## Homage to a Belly-Dance\n## Introduction to Moby-Dick\n## The Politics of Knowledge\n## Identity, Authority, and Freedom\n## The Anglo-Arab Encounter\n## Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation\n## Traveling Theory Reconsidered\n## History, Literature, and Geography\n## Contra Mundum\n## Bach’s Genius, Schumann’s Eccentricity, Chopin’s Ruthlessness, Rosen’s Gift\n## Fantasy’s Role in the Making of Nations\n## On Defiance and Taking Positions\n## From Silence to Sound and Back Again\n## On Lost Causes\n## Between Worlds\n## The Clash of Definitions\n## Credits\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the central framing of the book’s essays?\",\"answer\":\"The introduction presents the essays as intellectual results of teaching and studying over roughly thirty-five years, using criticism and interpretation to connect personal experience with broader cultural and historical conditions.\"},{\"question\":\"How does New York figure in Said’s criticism?\",\"answer\":\"New York is described as playing an important role in the kind of criticism and interpretation Said performs, shaped by the city’s eccentricity and its mix of attributes.\"},{\"question\":\"Which themes and subjects do the essays cover?\",\"answer\":\"The table of contents shows essays engaging prominent authors and thinkers and addressing topics such as sensibility, exile, orientalism, power, knowledge, identity, and interpretation.\"}]","Reflections on Exile - and Other Essays - Edward W. 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