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 recognition and misrecognition are the keys to understanding texts and contexts from the Old World to the New World.
Author Biography
Jonathan Hart is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has published nine books with Palgrave Macmillan, most recently, Literature, Theory, History (2011); Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (2011); and Shakespeare: Poetry, History and Culture (2009). He is also a poet and his most recent works are Dreamwork (2010) and Musing (2011), a book of sonnets. He has held visiting appointments at Toronto, Harvard, Cambridge, Princeton, and the Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III).
