Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination

• Author(s): C. Patell,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 187
• ISBN_10: 1137107774
  ISBN_13: 9781137107770
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Fiction / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

Description:... 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.