Eric Hayot is Professor of Comparative Literature at Penn State and director of its Asian Studies Program. He is the author of Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel (University of Michigan Press, 2003) and The Hypothetical Mandarin (OUP, 2009).
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: Literary Worlds
§ 1 The World and the Work of Art
§ 2 Worlds, Literature, Systems
§ 3 Literary Worlds
§ 4 First Propositions
§ 5 Aspects of Worldedness
Part II: Modes of Modern Literature
§ 6 The Planet and the World
§ 7 Universalism as a World View
§ 8 Realism, Romanticism, Modernism
§ 9 Six Variables, Three Modes
Part III: Ideologies of the Institution
§10 Against Periodization
§11 Institutional Problems Require Institutional Solutions
Part IV: 4 Appendices
§12 The Empty Quadrant
§13 Medium and Form
§14 On the History of Reality
§15 Beyond the Modern
