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Zusatztext Cohen, with extraordinary erudition, places European literature from the Romans onwards alongside extra European literatures. His book bulges with fascinating detail. Informationen zum Autor Walter Cohen is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, after having taught from 1980 to 2014 in Comparative Literature at Cornell University, where he received a distinguished teaching award and held various college and university administrative posts for two decades. He is the author of Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain, and of numerous articles on Renaissance literature, literary criticism, the history of the novel, and world literature. He is also one of the editors of The Norton Shakespeare. Klappentext Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and of each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe, and of the relationship of European literature to world literature. Zusammenfassung Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and of each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe, and of the relationship of European literature to world literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction Part 1: Antiquity 2: The Old World Literary System 3: Empire and Its Discontents in Classical Latin Part 2: The Vernacular: From the Middle Ages to Early Modernity 4: The Vernacular 5: Medieval Epic 6: Medieval Lyric 7: Medieval Narrative after 1100 8: Language, Literature, and Popular Culture in the Age of the Reformation Part 3: Early Modernity 9: The Representation of Empire in the Renaissance, 1: Europe and the Mediterranean 10: The Representation of Empire in the Renaissance, 2: Global Perspectives 11: Eurasian Literature through the Eighteenth Century Part 4: Modernity 12: Nineteenth-century Poetry: Romanticism and After 13: Nineteenth-Century Fiction 14: Jewishness and Modernist Fiction 15: World Literature and Contemporary Fiction 16: Conclusion Bibliography ...
