Ben Hutchinson

Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considering literature comparatively can help readers realize how much can be learned by looking beyond the horizon of their own cultures, discovering not only more about other literatures, but also about their own. Ben Hutchinson offers a history of comparative literature, placing it at the heart of literary criticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 180mm x 110mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780198807278
• ISBN-10: 0198807279
• Artikelnr.: 49445017

Autorenporträt

Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent. He is a Fellow of the Academia Europaea, a Philip Leverhulme Prize winner, and a Member of the Executive Committee of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), as well as a regular contributor to newspapers including the TLS and the Literary Review. His publications include Rilke's Poetics of Becoming (2006), W. G. Sebald. Die dialektische Imagination (2009), Modernism and Style (2011), and Lateness and Modern European Literature (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Metaphors of Reading
2: Practices and Principles
3: History and Heroes
4: Disciplines and Debates
5: The Futures of Comparative Literature
Further Reading
Index