Orientalism In Oriental Literature

The first step that reached out to the soil of the Middle East by American scholarship on the ground of understanding the enlightenment, realism, and erudition of the Oriental literature, is generally considered to be a reflection of America’s commercial relations with the Orient. It was the beginning of the Orientalism in American readership and ramified into four major theoretical approaches: Old Orientalism (O.P. Kejriwal).New Orientalism (Edward Said).Orientalism (David Canadine. Subaltern Studies (Gyatri Spivak) and Appropriate Model of Orientalism (Raymond Schwab). These models stroke up to scrape the stratum between the Orient and the Occident and this propensity helped them understand each other. This discernment on the part of American scholarship esteemed the art, occult and literary treasures of many Oriental writers very highly. Myriad of American artists and intellectual elite, set sails to the East in search of religious panoramas and mysticism for their canvases. One of the well known American painters was Frederick Church (1826-1900) whose writings revolve around the Oriental objects and ideas which are derivative of the East. His Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives (1870 ) figures landscape paintings, having prototypical of Biblical scenes, spiritual interpretation of nature, amalgamation of "Persian" and Occidental styles. We have another devotee of fine arts of the Orient and, a descriptive writer named Frederick Bridgman, (1847 –1928), an American artist, is known for his paintings of the Oriental themes. Whose prominence is of no question in the field of paintings, he had two studios. “One was decorated in the ancient Egyptian style, the other was filled with palm trees, textiles, some glimpses of traditio...

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