On Literature
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2005
Type: BOOK
... to books . Reading works of literature forces on us an exercise of fidelity and respect , albeit within a certain freedom of interpretation . There is a dangerous critical heresy , typical of our time , according to which we can do ...
The Comparative Perspective on Literature
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-06-30
Type: BOOK
... of literature , of the world of letters , a humanistic ecology , a literary Weltanschauung , a vision of the cultural universe , inclusive and comprehen- sive .... Comparative literature is the ineluctable result of general historical ...