Foreign Literature Studies ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (3): 161-164.

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Engaging in the Dynamics of Cosmopolitan Reading: A Review of Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination

Yang Jincai   

  • Online:2017-06-25 Published:2022-06-15
  • About author:Yang Jincai is professor of English at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Nanjing University (Nanjing 210023, China). He is currently engaged in the studies of 21st century British & American fiction as well as contemporary western critical theories. Email: jcyang@nju.edu.cn

Abstract: Cosmopolitanism is now understood as a perspective that reevaluates literary traditions in a global context so as to single out various cosmopolitan elements behind literary imagination. A case in point is Cyrus R. K. Patell's Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination which examines a set of texts to cultivate cosmopolitan reading practices.

Key words: Cyrus R. K. Patell, cosmopolitanism, literary imagination

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