People’s democratic republic of algeria ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research University of Tlemcen Faculty of Letters and Languages Department of English Orientalism in Lord Byron's Turkish Tale

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PEOPLE’S
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC
OF
ALGERIA
Ministry
of
Higher
Education
and
Scientific
Research
University
of
Tlemcen
Faculty
of
Letters
and
Languages
Department
of
English 
Orientalism in Lord Byron's Turkish Tale 
The 
Giaour
Dissertation
submitted
in
partial fulfillment of the requirement for a 
Master's degree
in
Anglo-Saxon
Literature and Civilisation
 
Presented
by Supervised by
Wafaa KADA
Dr. Souad BERBAR
Board
of
Examiners
Prof. Ilham SERIR President University of Tlemcen 
Dr. Souad BERBAR Supervisor University of Tlemcen 
Ms. Amina BOUAli Examiner University of Tlemcen 
Academic
Year
: 
2016 - 2017

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Abstract: 
 
This dissertation sheds the light on one of the most challenging works in 
English Literature. It examines the poetry of Lord Byron, and more specifically 
The Giaour
, as a significant instance of Romantic poetry with an Orientalist 
stance. Combining a historical with an analytical approach, it seeks to break the 
metaphor of an Orient only Orientalized and to expose a European rather 
hypnotized by the Orient to choose it as a career. It reads 
The Giaour
in the 
light of Edward Said‟s Orientalism to assess Byron‟s position. Byron‟s 
orientation was the exotic provinces of the Orient that affected his poetry and 
his life on the whole and led to the emersion of a different type of Orientalism.
Key words:
Lord Byron – Orientalism – 
The Giaour
– Romantic poetry.

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