Earl miner 19272004 was one of the twentieth centurys. Douwe fokkema 19312011, the expresident of the international comparative literature association 19851988 and the distinguished professor of utrecht university, was a dutch. Miner earl roy, phd, passed away on april 17, 2004 at meadow lakes in hightstown, nj after a long illness. This work proposes various ways to study something other than what are, all. The tradition of verses in kashmiri ascribed to the fourteenthcentury female ascetic lalla might seem a strange place to look for answers to these questions, given that the customary parameters of comparative poetics trace disciplinary origins to no earlier than the twentieth century earl miner and tend to favour a large sample size. Miner built a system of intercultural comparative poetics in his comparative poetics. Keywords earl miner easternwestern comparative literature studies. The former, sun asserts, is an extension of a metaphysics of imposition of a violent creativity metaphor imposes similarities, while the latter is based on harmony and. World literature and comparative poetics semantic scholar. Chinesewestern comparative poetics chinese studies. Miner admitted his indebtedness to liu and dedicated his comparative poetics to him. The first one intends to make a summary of earl miners crosscultural comparative poetics. It is a retelling of the story of saint catherine of alexandria and her martyrdom by the roman emperor maximinus, the tyrant of the title, who is enraged at catherines refusal to submit to his violent sexual passion.
Comments on the view about chinese originative poetics in. Thereisone longerandmore leisurelypoem,a belated lettertoa. Because these different genres are in different cultural systems, his comparative poetics must be intercultural. Articles may also explore movements, themes, forms, the history of ideas, relations between authors, the foundations of criticism and theory. Earl miner demonstrates that these definitions and inferences from them constitute useful bases for comparative poetics. The former is the presupposition of earl miner s system of comparative poetics, and the latter its basic standard. Poetics may be defined, according to earl miner, as conceptions or theories or systems of literature. Problems with value judgment and criterion for this judgment resulting from intercultural comparison can be. Pdf download essays on aristotles poetics free ebooks pdf. Besides representing an elegant example of the comparatists approach to the texts, its greatest value lies in miner s understanding of what has, and should not define comparative. Books by earl roy miner author of an introduction to. Download comparative poetics ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Not global without the middle east two trends played a significant role in the development of comparative poetics.
Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Medicine the milkwoman bangshis door at four in the morningdemandinga receipt. An intercultural essay on theories of literature by earl miner, 1990, princeton university press, princeton, n. Earl miner played a decisive role in shaping the discipline of comparative literature in. To the author, miner is not the first to shift critical attention from a traditional eurocentric or westcentric mode to eastwest comparative literature and theoretical studies. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the. Miner joined the princeton faculty in 1972 and retired as the townsend martin, class of 1917, professor of english and comparative literature in 2000. Earl roy miner february 21, 1927 april 17, 2004 was a professor at princeton university, and a noted scholar of japanese literature and especially japanese poetry. In comparative poetics 1990 earl miner tried to bring some clarity to the re.
Comparative literature studies publishes comparative critical essays that range across the rich traditions of africa, asia, europe, and north and south america, and that examine the literary relations between east and west, north and south. Miner joined the princeton faculty in 1972 and retired as the townsend martin, class of 1917, professor of english and comparative. The autonomy of literature and literary standard is of great significance for earl miner s comparative poetics research. Download pdf essays on aristotle s poetics princeton.
There are discussions of plot and the unity of action, character and fictional necessity, catharsis, pity and fear, and aesthetic pleasure. Download ebook comparative literature, earl miner writes, clearly involves something more than comparing two great german poets, and something different from a chinese studying french literature or a russian studying. Read download comparative poetics pdf pdf download. Hence comparative poetics can be understood one of the frameworks of the comparative study of literature. Earl miners seminal study on the genesis and develop ment of literary systems critical inquiry, winter 1978, pp. A specialist in early modern english literature, classical japanese literature and comparative poetics, miner was awarded with the universitys behrman award in 1993 for distinguished achievement. Comparative literature, earl miner writes, clearly involves something more than comparing two great german poets, and something different from a chinese studying french literature or a russian studying italian literature. The above text, published by purdue university press purdue university, has been downloaded 499 times as of 11. The tradition of verses in kashmiri ascribed to the fourteenthcentury female ascetic lalla might seem a strange place to look for answers to these questions, given that the customary parameters of comparative poetics trace disciplinary origins to no earlier than the twentieth century earl miner and tend to favour a large. Using comparative poetics as a form of cultural critique, suns newest work returns to older arguments about the differences between metaphor and scenefeeling poetics.
An intercultural essay on theories of literature by earl miner pp. Read download essays on aristotle s poetics princeton. Departing from these, miner draws a map for the literary and poetic tradition of the west and the east, thereby redefining the essence of literature. Download pdf comparativeromanticisms free online new. These shifts also played a role in the rise of new sinology. Aristotle who defined literature on the basis of theatre built the western poetics, which is. Sep 11, 20 aristotles poetics is the earliestsurviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
Earl was townsend martin, class of 1917, professor of english and comparative. This work proposes various ways to study something other than what are, all things considered, the short and simple. The present volume, an introduction to that literature, is at once a condensation, a reorganization, and an extension to a. Comparative romanticisms download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. The author asserts that earl miner, as a distinguished scholar in comparative literature studies, has made innovative.
What is comparative poetics, and where is it to be found. The first one intends to make a summary of earl miner s crosscultural comparative poetics. Brower, the standard treatment of the subject is in english. Earl miner s success owes much to the paradigm shifts in sinology that happened in the later half of the twentieth century. An intercultural essay on theories of literature, earl miner. An intercultural essay on theories of literature by earl miner, 1990. The theoretical work done in comparative poetics offers an important perspective on. Comparative literature and the plural vision of discourse zhang longxi. The tradition of verses in kashmiri ascribed to the fourteenthcentury female ascetic lalla might seem a strange place to look for answers to these questions, given that the customary parameters of comparative poetics trace disciplinary origins to no earlier than the twentieth century earl miner and tend to favour a large sample size the.
In spite of his subtle critique of earlier theoretical models, for claudio guillen the basic issues remain genres, themes, literary relations, and historiology, in the challenge of comparative literature cambridge. The theoretical work done in comparative poetics offers an important perspective on the problem of world literature. The poetry written by the japanese imperial court between a. Earl once wrote, i look upon literary study more as. The author asserts that earl miner, as a distinguished scholar in comparative literature studies, has made innovative contribution in three aspects. Comparative poetics download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. It is a retelling of the story of saint catherine of alexandria and her martyrdom by the roman emperor maximinus, the tyrant of the title, who is enraged at catherines refusal to submit to his violent sexual passion dryden reportedly wrote the play in only seven. A specialist in early modern english literature, classical japanese literature and comparative poetics, miner was presented with the universitys behrman award in 1993 for. In this, the fullest, sustained interpretation of aristotles poetics available in english, stephen halliwell demonstrates that the poetics, despite its laconic brevity, is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art, and it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. Our common understanding, for earl miner, comparative. Earl miner, specialist in english and japanese literature. Comparative poetics by earl roy miner, 9780691068602, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
The editor, earl miner, was townsend martin, class of 1917, professor of english and comparative literature at princeton university. Oct 01, 2010 miner was a tireless comparatist, eager, as he put it, to a study something other than what are, all things considered, the short and simple annals of one cultural parish at one historic momenta, as he says in comparative poetics. Tyrannick love, or the royal martyr is a tragedy by john dryden in rhymed couplets, first acted in june 1669, and published in 1670. An intercultural essay on theories of literature by earl roy miner 3. Comparative literature and the plural vision of discourse.
Earl miner project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. An intercultural essay on theories of literature, earl miner holds that once one or several critics who have an insight defining the nature and position of literature on the basis of the most advocated genre at that time, a kind of originative poetics has already developed. Earl roy miner february 21, 1927 april 17, 2004 was a professor at princeton university. Philosophers, classicists, and literary critics connect the poetics to taristoltles psychology and history, ethics an politics. Comparative poetics means research and exploration into fundamental issues of literary theory from a comparative and intercultural perspective wang 418. Earl roy miner comparative literature, earl miner writes, clearly involves something more than comparing two great german pocts, and something different from a chinese studying french literature or a russian. In it, aristotle offers an account of what he calls. Comparative literature, earl miner writes, clearly involves something more than comparing two great german poets, and something different from a chinese studying french literature or a russian studying.
Definitions, yearbook of comparative and general literature 37 1989. Download comparative romanticisms ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub. Earl miner miner joined the princeton faculty in 1972 and retired as the townsend martin, class of 1917, professor of english and comparative literature in 2000. Earl miner, an emeritus professor at princeton and a leading scholar of english and japanese literature, died april 17 after a long illness. While far eastern and indian critical traditions have played a significant role in the field of comparative poetics, the middle eastern tradition and persian literature have been neglected. Download pdf comparative poetics free online new books. Earl roy miner comparative literature, earl miner writes, clearly involves something more than comparing two great german pocts, and something different from. With that 1990 footnote, repeated by its author earl miner in 2000, and then again by jonathan culler in the opening paragraph of his 2015 theory of the lyric,1 any claim of arabic or persian poetics on our attention is rendered null ab initio one is left with a choice. His main contention in comparative poetics an intercultural essay on theories of literature is that western poetics, being built upon the originative poetics of aristotle, is irremediably tainted by the mechanism of drama. Besides representing an elegant example of the comparatists approach to the texts, its greatest value lies in miner s understanding of what has, and should not define comparative studies as an academic discipline. Jul 15, 2014 in current international comparative literature scholarship, earl miners significant contribution seems to be overlooked, although comparative poetics is still discussed periodically. In the west, it was earl miner in particular who opened the debate on the commensurability of the worlds literary cultures. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Comparative poetics is an important essay for our time and deserves to be read with reflection.
An introduction to japanese court poetry earl miner. In current international comparative literature scholarship, earl miners significant contribution seems to be overlooked, although comparative poetics is still discussed periodically. Owens method used in his readings in chinese literary thought is a contribution to chinesewestern comparative poetics because 1 it breaks the misunderstanding that yina cao, about chinesewestern comparative poetics. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext.