Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.
The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal.
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.