Comparative Poetics An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature

Name: Comparative Poetics An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature
Price: 8.85 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780691014906

ISBN-10: 0691014906

ISBN-13: 9780691014906

Edition: 1991

Authors: Earl Roy Miner

List price: $47.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $8.85

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

"Comparative literature," Earl Miner writes, "clearly involves something more than comparing two great German poets, and something different from a Chinese studying French literature or a Russian studying Italian literature." But what would a true intercultural poetics be? This work proposes various ways to "study something other than what are, all things considered, the short and simple annals of one cultural parish at one historic moment." The first developed account of theories of literature from an intercultural standpoint, the book shows that an "originative" or "foundational" poetics develops in cultures with explicit poetics when critics define the nature and conditions of…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/23/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 259
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.13" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Natasha Walter is author of THE NEW FEMINISM. She is a regular contributor to the national papers and BBC Radio.



Preface, With Acknowledgments


Introduction



Comparative Poetics


Poetics


Literary Factors


"The Comparative"


Literary Distinctions


Comparative Poetics in Brief



Drama


Amphitryon and Don Juan


Estrangement


Make-up


Engagement


Affective-Expressive Poetics of Drama


Antimimetic Poetics of Drama


Residual Mimesis


Dramatic Examples


The Trials of Presumed Reality


Representation vs. Language



Lyric


Lyric in Asian Poetics


Presence and Intensification


Lyric Joined with Drama and Narrative


Lyric Radicals and Revisionism


Lyric as Matrix and Surrogate Genre



Narrative


Fulfilled Continuity


Sequence and Plot


Narrative Bounds


Narrative in Verse and Prose


Narrative Units


Points of View and Attention



Relativism


Comparative Poetics Again


The Relativism of the Genres


Fact and Fiction Once More


Relativism in Literary History


Problems of Relativism


Bibliography


Index