Textual Imitation: Making and Seeing in Literature

by Jonathan Hart

Book Overview

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. Revealing the underpinnings of mimesis and representation in Aristophanes, Plato, and Aristotle, Hart moves on to show how Spain, France,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137301341
• ISBN13: 9781137301345
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"