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Miner, Earl Roy was born on February 21, 1927 in Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Roy Jacob and Marjory Miner.
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"Comparative literature," Earl Miner writes, "clearly involves something more than comparing two great German poets, and something different from a Chinese studying French literature or a Russian studying Italian literature." But what would a true intercultural poetics be? This work proposes various ways to "study something other than what are, all things considered, the short and simple annals of one cultural parish at one historic moment." The first developed account of theories of literature from an intercultural standpoint, the book shows that an "originative" or "foundational" poetics develops in cultures with explicit poetics when critics define the nature and conditions of literature in terms of the then most esteemed genredrama, lyric, or narrative. Earl Miner demonstrates that these definitions and inferences from them constitute useful bases for comparative poetics.
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Travel is one of literature's great metaphors for life; to investigate the properties of travel writing in different cultures affords a particular opportunity for intercultural comparison. In Naming Properties, Earl Miner examines closely four travel accounts: in Japanese, Basho's great Narrow Road through the Provinces, and, as control, the nonliterary account of his friend Sora; in English, Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Boswell's manuscript version, his unbowdlerized Journal. The works were carefully chosen to provide a maximum of literary evidence. The focus of Miner's comparison is on the practical and philosophical implications of naming. Because comparison can reveal parochialism, currently familiar and unexamined Western conceptions are put in question on such issues as identification (what is a name, what is identity in different cultures?); reference (why name a child or river if they do not exist?); intention (how can we refer without intending to?); and fact and fiction (do names differ in fiction and in fact? What of a factual or historical character in a fiction like the novel? or a legal fiction in daily life?). In addition to examining the travel accounts, Miner considers the philosophical issues of naming in a range of other texts, from the Bible, Plato, Thucydides, Confucius, and earliest Japanese writing to current Western philosophers such as Kripke, Donnellan, and Nelson. This book will interest scholars in eighteenth-century English and pre-modern Japanese literature; comparative literature; intercultural study; and naming (onomastics). Earl Miner is Townsend Martin Class of 1917, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.
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Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's foremost verse translator, the first literary historian to provide a conception of periods, and what would now be termed a comparatist. This 1993 book looks at Dryden's literary relationships with Ben Jonson and with French authors (notably Corneille), at issues raised by the work thought to be his greatest by Romantic and contemporary readers, Fables Ancient and Modern; and at Samuel Johnson's definition of Dryden, whose biography in Johnson's Lives was the author's favourite. The book has implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.
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Miner, Earl Roy was born on February 21, 1927 in Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Roy Jacob and Marjory Miner.
He earned his bachelor"s degree in Japanese studies and master"s and doctoral degrees in English from the University of Minnesota. With this Doctor of Philosophy, he joined the English faculty at Williams College (1953–1955) and at University of California, Los Angeles (1955–1972), whereupon he joined Princeton in 1972.
Instructor English, Williams College, 1953-1955;
member of faculty department English, University of California at Los Angeles, 1955-1972;
professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1964-1972;
Professor of English, Princeton University, 1972-1974;
Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor English and comparative literature, Princeton University, since 1974. Visiting fellow U. Canterbury, 1985. Member joint committee for Japanese StudiesSocial Science Research Council, 1979-1983.
Distinguished visiting professor Emory University, 1989. Visiting professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1990, Stanford University, 1994. Member Committee on Scholarly Communications with Peoples Republic China, 1983-1987.
( "Comparative literature," Earl Miner writes, "clearly i...)
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Member American Society for 18th Century Studies (president 1981-1982, Clifford lecturer 1997), Milton Society of America (president 1982-1983), American Comparative Literature Association (member advisory board 1977-1980, 86-89), International Comparative Literature Association (member executive council 1986-1988, president 1988-1991).
Married Virginia Lane, July 15, 1950. Children: Erik Earl, Lisa Lane.
