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Paperback. On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds by developing a vocabulary for the description of aesthetic worlds,using that vocabulary to rewrite the history of literature of the last 400 years. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that characterize technological development. However this quintessentially modern mindset--putting progress at the center of historicity--makes it difficult for anyone eager to mount a case for why someone interested in the history of modern literary aesthetics ought to read the literature of the non-Western world. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Hayot argues that contemporary debates about world literature and world literary systems can be rethought through an attention to the world-creating force ... Read more
Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that characterize technological development. However this quintessentially modern mindset--putting progress at the center of historicity--makes it difficult for anyone eager to mount a case for why someone interested in the history of modern literary aesthetics ought to read the literature of the non-Western world. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Hayot argues that contemporary debates about world literature and world literary systems can be rethought through an attention to the world-creating force ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190278274
SKU
V9780190278274
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About Eric Hayot
Eric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Penn State. He is the author of Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel and The Hypothetical Mandarin.
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