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On Literary Worlds
On Literary Worlds
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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 the 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. In 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,
Hayot 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
Copernicus to Marx, Don Quijote to Battlestar Galactica, On Literary Worlds shows how the very notion of the modern is, at heart, a cosmographical social form, and opens vast new directions for the future analysis of the activity and force of literature.
Author: Eric Hayot
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/05/2012
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199926695
Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2013
at the 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. In 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,
Hayot 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
Copernicus to Marx, Don Quijote to Battlestar Galactica, On Literary Worlds shows how the very notion of the modern is, at heart, a cosmographical social form, and opens vast new directions for the future analysis of the activity and force of literature.
Author: Eric Hayot
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/05/2012
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199926695
Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2013
About the Author
Eric Hayot is Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Hypothetical Mandarin, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, and Chinese Dreams.
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