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Comparative Poetics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Comparative Poetics

"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 literature in terms of the then most esteemed genredrama, lyric, or narrative. Earl Miner demonstrates that these definitions and inferences from them constitute useful bases for comparative poetics.

The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 600

The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature

The description for this book, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, will be forthcoming.

Stuart and Georgian Moments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Stuart and Georgian Moments

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Teaching the Short Fiction of Henry James
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 171

Teaching the Short Fiction of Henry James

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-07-21
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Henry James stands as one of the preeminent writers of the late 19th/early 20th century period; however, the world he wrote about has since disappeared. This collection of essays provides pedagogical assistance for several of his short stories--including "The Jolly Corner", "The Europeans" and "Travelling Companions"--and his most anthologized longer works. It is aimed at instructors who do not consider themselves experts on James' work. Each essay approaches a single work, offering a critical analysis as well as providing pedagogical suggestions for how to introduce both the work and the relevant social issues to students of the 21st century.

An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry

The poetry written by the Japanese imperial court between A.D. 550 and 1350 is one of the great literatures of the world. The present volume, an introduction to that literature, is at once a condensation, a reorganization, and an extension (to A.D. 1500) of Japanese Court Poetry (1961), by the author and Robert H. Brower, the standard treatment of the subject is in English. The book's five central chapters are devoted to the major court poets and their work; other chapters deal with the forms, assumptions, and themes of court poetry. The author's emphasis throughout is on the human and cultural values of this poetic tradition. Over 150 poems are included in both transliteration and translation. Many of the translations are joint efforts with Professor Bower; others are new translations by the author. The approach to the poems is essentially critical, and draws on the findings of recent Japanese scholarship.

Empire of Texts in Motion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 610

Empire of Texts in Motion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-26
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  • Publisher: BRILL

By the turn of the twentieth century, Japan’s military and economic successes made it the dominant power in East Asia, drawing hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese students to the metropole and sending thousands of Japanese to other parts of East Asia. The constant movement of peoples, ideas, and texts in the Japanese empire created numerous literary contact nebulae, fluid spaces of diminished hierarchies where writers grapple with and transculturate one another’s creative output. Drawing extensively on vernacular sources in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, this book analyzes the most active of these contact nebulae: semicolonial Chinese, occupied Manchurian, and colonia...

The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 600

The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature

The description for this book, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, will be forthcoming.

Hope: A Literary History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 435

Hope: A Literary History

Compelling treatment of a question pervading literature from antiquity: when is hope a good thing and when is it not?

George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton

"In George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton, Anna K. Nardo details how Eliot reimagined Milton's life and art to write epic novels for an age of unbelief. Nardo demonstrates that Eliot directly engaged Milton's poetry, prose, and the well-known legends of his life - transposing, reframing, regendering, and thus testing both the stories told about Milton and the stories Milton told."--BOOK JACKET.

Fate, Nature, and Literary Form
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

Fate, Nature, and Literary Form

This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the “tragic” combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by contemporary critical discourse (especially the works by such thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson and Raymond Williams), the author challenges both exotic and postmodern representation of Japanese culture as “the other” of the West. By examining the social backgrounds of artists’ endeavors to create new literary forms, the author unveils a rich tradition of tragic literature that, unlike the dominant local tradition of naturalism, has registered the unbridgeable gap between universal ideals and social values at a particular historical moment.