Textual Imitation: Making and Seeing in Literature [Hardcover]

Textual Imitation offers a new critique of the space between fiction and truth, poetry and philosophy. In a nimble, yet startlingly wide-ranging argument, esteemed scholar Jonathan Hart argues that recognition and misrecognition are the keys to understanding texts and contexts from the Old World to the New World.Introduction Mimesis, Recognition and Culture Old World and New Poetics and Culture Making and Seeing East-West Poetics Conclusion

'Professor Jonathan Hart, one of the leading comparatists of this hemisphere, continues with this new volume Textual Imitations to open up new vistas. The center pieces of this volume are two poets, one Chinese and one Japanese, and the ways their poetry is made accessible to a Western audience. This is indeed multi-culturalism at its best.' - Ricardo J. Quinones, Professor Emeritus,

Claremont McKenna College, USA

Jonathan Hart is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has published nine books with Palgrave Macmillan, most recently, Literature, Theory, History (2011); Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (2011); and Shakespeare: Poetry, History and Culture (2009). He is also a poet and his most recent works are Dreamwork (2010) and Musing (2011), a book of sonnets. He has held visiting appointments at Toronto, Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, and the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III).