Explorations in Poetics


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The book provides a lucid and systematic theory of the work of literature and its major aspects.

Author: Benjamin Harshav
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 04/09/2007
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.15w x 0.10d
ISBN13: 9780804755160
ISBN10: 0804755167
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory

About the Author
Benjamin Harshav is the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Until 1987, he taught at Tel Aviv University, where he established a department of poetics and comparative literature. He is also the founding editor of the journal Poetics Today. His recent books include Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Stanford, 2003) and Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry--A Historical Anthology(Stanford, 2006). He is also the editor of Marc Chagall on Art and Culture(Stanford, 2003).