SOURCE: “Perversion, Parody, and Cultural Hegemony: Lord Byron's Oriental Tales,” in The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 88, No. 3, Summer, 1989, pp. 569-603.
In the following essay, Christensen surveys Lord Byron's Oriental verse tales and suggests that he may have employed Orientalist motifs to expose “the primal foreignness” of the English language.
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