Comparative Poetics

Author: Earl Miner
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book was first published in English in 1990, reflecting the progress in international studies triggered by the presence of Chinese scholars, as well as many themes and issues. The foremost question is unavoidable: What are the ideas about the nature of literature in various cultures? Or, to put it another way, how do the major literary cultural communities construct their systematic literary views? The usual answer is obvious: that is, through responding to the literary practices existing in their social, philosophical, and ideological contexts.