Literature, theory, history / Jonathan Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature and history.

Comparative literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 265 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

In this interdisciplinary work that ranges from the ancients through the Renaissance to the present, Jonathan Hart examines systems, law, theatre, nature, stereotype, otherness, authority, new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, reading, interpretation, poetry, and poetics. The book considers crucial topics and controversies involving the field of Comparative Literature, including subjectivity, Bartolome de Las Casas, and globalization. Regardless of the period, this towering study assumes that meaning, genre, character, language, and structure are principal matters for debate. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Comparative Literature 15

2 Comparing Empires 33

3 Literature and Culture 45

4 Otherness and Authority 61

5 Historicism, Feminism, and the Poetics of Difference 79

6 Poetics and Poetic Worlds 99

7 Literature, Theory, and After 125

8 Between History and Poetry 141

9 Translating Las Casas 159

10 Comparison, Conquest, and Globalization 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230113398

0230113397

OCLC:

711049335