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10 Don Juan in the Ottoman East Dis/Continuities in Cantos V–VIII
Get accessDiego Saglia is Professor of English Literature at the University of Parma. His research focuses on Romantic literature and culture, also in connection to other European traditions. A member of the Interuniversity Centre for the Study of Romanticism, he also sits on the advisory committee of Ravenna’s Museo Byron. His co-edited book Byron and Italy (with Alan Rawes, 2017) was awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize in 2018. His latest monographs are European Literatures in Britain, 1815–1832: Romantic Translations (2019) and Modernità del Romanticismo: scrittura e cambiamento nella letteratura britannica 1780–1830 (2023).
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Published:22 October 2024
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Abstract
As with the English Cantos, those set in Constantinople and Ismail constitute a discrete narrative sequence within Don Juan, one whose apparently seamless plot progression is criss-crossed by continuities and discontinuities in relation to the poem’s previous instalments. Discontinuities particularly concern the position of these cantos in the poem’s compositional history during the fraught period of 1821–22, as well as a representation of the Ottoman East which knowingly reprises and relentlessly subverts familiar orientalist topoi. In keeping with Don Juan’s pervasive medley mode, Cantos V–VIII are built on an interplay of dis/continuities forcing readers uninterruptedly to identify and decode multiple, ever-varying lines of argument about excess, consumption, eroticism, and war, and held together by a central thread of reflections on power. Investigating the thematic and structural peculiarities of this section of Don Juan, this chapter suggests that we read it as a unit within the poem that consistently engages with questions of authority and control through a distinctive interweaving of figurative protocols, historical-ideological materials, and metaliterary references.
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