一、英国中世纪文学的东方形象人们常常把异域、遥远和神秘联系起来,但异域也激发着人们的想象力和探索的欲望,而异国情调最早往往就开始于这种向往和找寻。“扮演异国典范的角色最适合的候选者是,那些离我们最遥远,我们知之甚少的民族和文化。”由于分处地球的东、西两端,东、西方受交通限制,长期以来鲜有直接来往,只能彼此守望。东西双方彼此都为了打破空间上的隔 First, the oriental image of British medieval literature People often associate exotic, distant and mysterious, but the exotic also inspire people’s imagination and exploration of desire, and the earliest exotic often start from this longing and looking for. “The most suitable candidate to play the role of a paragon is the people and cultures that are far away from us and we know little about it.” "Because of the traffic restrictions on the eastern and western ends of the Earth, the East and the West, Little direct contact since, can only watch each other. Both things are to break the space between each other