{"product_id":"on-literary-worlds-9780190278274","title":"On Literary Worlds","description":"Although literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe it owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that characterize technological development. However this quintessentially modern mindset--putting progress at\u003cbr\u003ethe center of historicity--makes it difficult for anyone eager to mount a case for why someone interested in the history of modern literary aesthetics ought to read the literature of the non-Western world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, Eric Hayot argues that contemporary debates about world literature and world literary systems can be rethought through an attention to the world-creating force of aesthetic objects. As he rethinks from the ground up our concepts of literary progress and historicity, \u003cbr\u003eHayot re-describes the history of modern literature as we know it (or as we think we know it), developing new concepts and new formal languages to describe the aesthetic physics of the socially and imaginatively possible. Connecting this physics to historical shifts in world-view ranging from\u003cbr\u003eCopernicus to Marx, Don Quijote to \u003cem\u003eBattlestar Galactica\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOn Literary Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e shows how the very notion of the modern is, at heart, a cosmographic social form and opens vast new directions for the future analysis of the activity and force of literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Hayot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190278274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEric Hayot is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Penn State. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eChinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Hypothetical Mandarin\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39929199657075,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_16038f2e-e101-49ce-8f42-630fee0fffb7.jpg?v=1647611072","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/on-literary-worlds-9780190278274","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}