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Between Poetic Cultures: Ancient Sources of the Asian “Orient” in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Louise Ackermann
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 56, Number 3, Fall 2016
- pp. 14-27
- 10.1353/esp.2016.0026
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Through close analysis of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s and Louise Ackermann’s readings of the literature of ancient Persia and India, Sa’di’s Gulistan and the Mahabharata, respectively, this article examines the specific meaning their texts give to the ‘Orient’ as a source of global poetic exchange.