Literary Orientalism, postcolonialism, and universalism

Orientalism, literary Orientalism and romanticism -- The Oriental roots of the picaresque -- Orientalism and literary translation -- The Oriental sources of courtly love -- The Orient, the other and the novel -- Going native: Conrad and postcolonial discourse -- Modern universalism and the myth of Westernness -- Globalism and the universal language: some lessons from the past -- Language, truth, and logic in the age of globalism and the discourse of civilizations -- Colonialism, postcolonialism, and anti-colonialism: a closer look at the false rhetoric of freedom