Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature

by Earl Roy Miner

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691014906
• ISBN13: 9780691014906
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"