Download PDF by Jonathan Hart (auth.): Literature, Theory, History

By Jonathan Hart (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230339581

ISBN-13: 9780230339583

ISBN-10: 1349295221

ISBN-13: 9781349295227

This booklet discusses literature, conception and heritage in shut relation. Its major concentration is on comparative literature and heritage, tradition, poetics, rhetoric, theatricality, style and gender, and balances shut interpreting with conception and ancient context.

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Recognitions are refracted in various directions and ways. Like the French, the English could not escape Spanish textual influence when viewing the New World. Cabot had sailed to Newfoundland in 1497, but no journal or log is extant. Walter Ralegh is especially pertinent in a discussion of comparative texts of European expansion. He desires gold and God as much as Columbus, but he said that England takes a higher road than Spain. Although desiring the land of Guiana, like a woman to be raped, he does so on behalf of Elizabeth I, the virgin queen.

Despite their differences, in this period, French and English Protestants use similar representations of new lands and peoples to those employed by Spanish Catholics. José de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit, is a case in point. In 1596, the same year Ralegh’s work on Guiana appeared, Acosta’s De procuranda was Comparing Empires ● 41 published in Cologne. Acosta understood the distinctions and the pitfalls of recognitions blind to cultural difference. In the preface to this work, Acosta notes that the nations of America “are very varied and diverse and very different from one another as much in climate, environment and dress as in intelligence and customs .

Literary study can include literary history and readings that involve a recognition of social, political, cultural, and economic forces in the production Comparative Literature ● 29 of the text and its meaning, but I think that close reading or interpretation of literary texts should be at the heart of literary and comparative literary studies. When discussing various fields and other arts in relation to literature, careful attention to literature is crucial. Otherwise, literature is subordinated.

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