"The poetics of otherness combines two strange and familiar ideas, that of making and what is different from ourselves. The book stresses war, trauma and literature, and the wound is explored from the
Each with their own logic, fictional and historical worlds provide different ways to view reality. This book is about those worlds, past and present, and it concentrates on literature and history as t
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries begins with Shakespeare’s England and expands to a world before, after, and beyond. With an eye to language, genre, drama, and literary and historical narrative, thi
From Shakespeare to Obama discusses language, slavery, and place from the Portuguese enslavement of African people, through the public and private in Shakespeare's poems and plays, to President Obama'
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 re
This book discusses literature, theory and history in close relation. Its main focus is on comparative literature and history, culture, poetics, rhetoric, theatricality, genre and gender. The method b
In this stunning reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s works, Jonathan Hart explores key topics such as love, lust, time, culture, and history to unlock the Bard’s brilliant fictional worlds.
What do the visual and textual representations of the New World have to tell us about the complexity of the relationships between the major empires and the individuals who opposed and favored colonial
Representing the New World argues for the importance of Spain in the New World as an example of France and England in their efforts to establish colonies and suggests that this example was ambivalent
