Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination [electronic resource] /
Patell, C.author.
Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved.
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Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Whitman's Spider; Citizens of the World; Conversation and Irony; How to Read and Why; Chapter 1: Crossing Boundaries of Culture and Thought; The Home and the World; Arabian Sands; Cosmopolitan Tragedy; Conrad's Darkness; Chapter 2: Religious Belief; Ahab's Scar; Manhattoes; Quakers with a Vengeance; Ahab's Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 3: Historical Fiction; Another Country; New York Cosmopolitanism; Doctorow's Detachment; Chapter 4: Speculative Fiction; Science Studies; Technophobia; The Hive Mind
Chapter 5: Animal StudiesAnimal Studies; Electric Sheep; The White Whale; Coda: Animal Farm; Conclusion: Why to Read and How; Cosmopolitan Reading; Emergent Literatures; The Global Text; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved.
Literature-Philosophy.
Fiction.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.