Eric Hayot
Biographic Data
| ID | 295500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Hayot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Hayot |
| SIGNATURE | HAYOT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Only Persons Intend
Take My Breath Away
Take My Breath Away Eric Hayot (bio) In the middle of everything—in the middle of everything—here we are. Breathing. Not breathing. Choking on the fumes of the history we inherit: climate change, white supremacy, global pandemic. Waiting for the great exhale. At the dedication of St. Gaudens' Boston monument to the first Black regiment raised in the North to fight in the Civil War, Robert Lowell said, William James "could almost hear the bronze N…
Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan
Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what they can become. Humanist Reason lays out a new vision that moves beyond traditional disciplines to demonstrate what the humanities can tell us about our world.
Video Games & the Novel
In the last sixty years, the video game industry has grown from quite literally nothing to a behemoth larger than the film or television industries. This enormous change in the shape of cultural production has failed to make much of an impact on the study of culture more generally, partly because video games seem so much less culturally important than novels. No one has ever imagined the Great American Video Game. But video games have more in com…
Futures of Comparative Literature: Acla State of the Discipline Report
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting-edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics a…
What Happens to Literature if People Are Artworks
This essay looks at the potential philosophical justifications for the social consensus known as humanist reason. Exploring the structure of that consensus in literary criticism and history, it goes on to plumb one possible origin for that consensus in the work of Immanuel Kant. Focusing on an overlap between Kant’s descriptions of the beautiful work of art and his theorization of persons, the essay concludes that the humanist reason articulated …
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism
Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture
Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics
Introducing Verge: What Does It Mean to Study Global Asias
Academic Writing, I Love You. Really, I Do
I Too Have Dreamed of Another French Messiah
Research Article| September 01 2013 I Too Have Dreamed of Another French Messiah Eric Hayot Eric Hayot Pennsylvania State University [email protected] Eric Hayot is distinguished professor of comparative literature and Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Chinese Dreams (2004), The Hypothetical Mandarin (2009), and On Literary Worlds (2012), and the co-editor, with Steven G.Yao and Haun Saussy, of Sinographies: Writi…
Chinese Modernism, Mimetic Desire, and European Time
"The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria. Together, these essays present a fresh examination of modernist works from around the world. Topics covered include: Richard Wright and photographic modernism; poetry of the Caribbean; Chinese modernism and Lu Xun's Ah Q-The Re…
Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel
China's profound influence on the avant-garde in the 20th century was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, and the writers associated with the Parisian literary journal Tel quel. Chinese Dreams explores the complex, intricate relationship between various "Chinas"—as texts—and the nation/culture known simply as "China"—their context—within the work of these writers. Eric Hayot calls into question the very means of …
Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Modernity Problem The Metaphor Problem The Authenticity Problem New Horizons References and Further Reading
On Literary Worlds
Is it possible to come up with a better theory of the world than the ones governing contemporary debates on world literature and world-systems, to invent one more closely connected to the literary itself? This essay rethinks the relationship between “world” and literature, not to produce a mediating relay between world literature and world-systems but to see if a third analysis, focusing on the ontology of composed works, can bring “world” differ…
Against Periodization; or, On Institutional Time
A key context for literary studies: the shapes and times of the institutions that sustain, permit, and organize it. This essay argues that we have not thought enough about the impact on concepts of literary history of the ways in which the literary profession organizes itself and finds itself organized by the curriculum, the job market, the professional associations, and the scholastic calendar. Each of these, I claim, exerts a distorting force o…
Cosmologies, Globalization, and Their Humans
This essay argues that the work of Chinese film director Jia Zhangke constitutes an important commentary on the relationship between globalization, humanness, and China. It begins with a discussion of Jia's relationship to international art-house and documentary realism, focusing on the development of historical ironies in Jia's early works, including Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000), and Unknown Pleasures (2002), finally reaching Jia's best-known…
The Asian Turns
Everybody Loves a Crisis The story of what's what in asian american studies is like the story of the profession at large: no one thinks in a vacuum. But the current drift in literary scholarship toward questions of transnationalism and globalization arrives at shores long explored by scholars who work on Asian America and the Pacific. Much of this familiarity has to do with the material history of their subjects, the ways in which questions of di…
The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, modernity, and Chinese Pain
This book begins with two simple questions: Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? And what can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the West's contemporary relation to China, and, more broadly, about the historical development of the universal subject of modernity? Insofar as it responds to t…
Sinographies: Writing China
Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West
Book Review| January 01 2008 Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and WestLongxi, Zhang Eric Hayot Eric Hayot Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (1): 122–126. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659641 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Hayot; Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature …
Chinese Bodies, Chinese Futures
Why did the coolie's body speak so forcefully to nineteenth-century America of its future? And how did that body's loquacious, obscene ventriloquism shape the imaginary scaffolding of America's utopias, its science fictions? This essay answers those questions by reading Arthur Vinton's Looking Further Backward (1890), one of the first American novels to imagine a Chinese military invasion of the United States
Reading Game/Text: EverQuest, Alienation, and Digital Communities
Reading Game/Text: EverQuest, Alienation, and Digital Communities Eric Hayot and Edward Wesp Abstract The essay begins with a review of a recent court case ruling that video games do not constitute “speech” in order to develop arguments about the relationship between “media” (which communicate) and “activities” (in which, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Limbaugh argues, any communication is “purely inconsequential”). Focusing on the online role…
Les gens de couleur libres du Fort-Royal, 1679-1823, (2e partie)
Hayot E. Les gens de couleur libres du Fort-Royal, 1679-1823, (2e partie). In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 56, n°203, 2e trimestre 1969. pp. 99-163
Video Games & the Novel
In the last sixty years, the video game industry has grown from quite literally nothing to a behemoth larger than the film or television industries. This enormous change in the shape of cultural production has failed to make much of an impact on the study of culture more generally, partly because video games seem so much less culturally important than novels. No one has ever imagined the Great American Video Game. But video games have more in com…
Futures of Comparative Literature: Acla State of the Discipline Report
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting-edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics a…
Introducing Verge: What Does It Mean to Study Global Asias
Academic Writing, I Love You. Really, I Do
Against Periodization; or, On Institutional Time
A key context for literary studies: the shapes and times of the institutions that sustain, permit, and organize it. This essay argues that we have not thought enough about the impact on concepts of literary history of the ways in which the literary profession organizes itself and finds itself organized by the curriculum, the job market, the professional associations, and the scholastic calendar. Each of these, I claim, exerts a distorting force o…
Cosmologies, Globalization, and Their Humans
This essay argues that the work of Chinese film director Jia Zhangke constitutes an important commentary on the relationship between globalization, humanness, and China. It begins with a discussion of Jia's relationship to international art-house and documentary realism, focusing on the development of historical ironies in Jia's early works, including Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000), and Unknown Pleasures (2002), finally reaching Jia's best-known…
Les gens de couleur libres du Fort-Royal, 1679-1823, (2e partie)
Hayot E. Les gens de couleur libres du Fort-Royal, 1679-1823, (2e partie). In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 56, n°203, 2e trimestre 1969. pp. 99-163
Reading Game/Text: EverQuest, Alienation, and Digital Communities
Reading Game/Text: EverQuest, Alienation, and Digital Communities Eric Hayot and Edward Wesp Abstract The essay begins with a review of a recent court case ruling that video games do not constitute “speech” in order to develop arguments about the relationship between “media” (which communicate) and “activities” (in which, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Limbaugh argues, any communication is “purely inconsequential”). Focusing on the online role…
Chinese Bodies, Chinese Futures
Why did the coolie's body speak so forcefully to nineteenth-century America of its future? And how did that body's loquacious, obscene ventriloquism shape the imaginary scaffolding of America's utopias, its science fictions? This essay answers those questions by reading Arthur Vinton's Looking Further Backward (1890), one of the first American novels to imagine a Chinese military invasion of the United States
Sinographies: Writing China
Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West
Book Review| January 01 2008 Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and WestLongxi, Zhang Eric Hayot Eric Hayot Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (1): 122–126. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659641 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Hayot; Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature …
The Asian Turns
Everybody Loves a Crisis The story of what's what in asian american studies is like the story of the profession at large: no one thinks in a vacuum. But the current drift in literary scholarship toward questions of transnationalism and globalization arrives at shores long explored by scholars who work on Asian America and the Pacific. Much of this familiarity has to do with the material history of their subjects, the ways in which questions of di…
The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, modernity, and Chinese Pain
This book begins with two simple questions: Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? And what can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the West's contemporary relation to China, and, more broadly, about the historical development of the universal subject of modernity? Insofar as it responds to t…
Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel
China's profound influence on the avant-garde in the 20th century was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, and the writers associated with the Parisian literary journal Tel quel. Chinese Dreams explores the complex, intricate relationship between various "Chinas"—as texts—and the nation/culture known simply as "China"—their context—within the work of these writers. Eric Hayot calls into question the very means of …
Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction The Modernity Problem The Metaphor Problem The Authenticity Problem New Horizons References and Further Reading
On Literary Worlds
Is it possible to come up with a better theory of the world than the ones governing contemporary debates on world literature and world-systems, to invent one more closely connected to the literary itself? This essay rethinks the relationship between “world” and literature, not to produce a mediating relay between world literature and world-systems but to see if a third analysis, focusing on the ontology of composed works, can bring “world” differ…
Against Periodization; or, On Institutional Time
A key context for literary studies: the shapes and times of the institutions that sustain, permit, and organize it. This essay argues that we have not thought enough about the impact on concepts of literary history of the ways in which the literary profession organizes itself and finds itself organized by the curriculum, the job market, the professional associations, and the scholastic calendar. Each of these, I claim, exerts a distorting force o…
Cosmologies, Globalization, and Their Humans
This essay argues that the work of Chinese film director Jia Zhangke constitutes an important commentary on the relationship between globalization, humanness, and China. It begins with a discussion of Jia's relationship to international art-house and documentary realism, focusing on the development of historical ironies in Jia's early works, including Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000), and Unknown Pleasures (2002), finally reaching Jia's best-known…
Chinese Modernism, Mimetic Desire, and European Time
"The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria. Together, these essays present a fresh examination of modernist works from around the world. Topics covered include: Richard Wright and photographic modernism; poetry of the Caribbean; Chinese modernism and Lu Xun's Ah Q-The Re…
I Too Have Dreamed of Another French Messiah
Research Article| September 01 2013 I Too Have Dreamed of Another French Messiah Eric Hayot Eric Hayot Pennsylvania State University [email protected] Eric Hayot is distinguished professor of comparative literature and Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Chinese Dreams (2004), The Hypothetical Mandarin (2009), and On Literary Worlds (2012), and the co-editor, with Steven G.Yao and Haun Saussy, of Sinographies: Writi…
Academic Writing, I Love You. Really, I Do
Persistent Forms: Explorations in Historical Poetics
Introducing Verge: What Does It Mean to Study Global Asias
A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism
Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture
Futures of Comparative Literature: Acla State of the Discipline Report
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting-edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics a…
What Happens to Literature if People Are Artworks
This essay looks at the potential philosophical justifications for the social consensus known as humanist reason. Exploring the structure of that consensus in literary criticism and history, it goes on to plumb one possible origin for that consensus in the work of Immanuel Kant. Focusing on an overlap between Kant’s descriptions of the beautiful work of art and his theorization of persons, the essay concludes that the humanist reason articulated …
Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan
Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what they can become. Humanist Reason lays out a new vision that moves beyond traditional disciplines to demonstrate what the humanities can tell us about our world.
Video Games & the Novel
In the last sixty years, the video game industry has grown from quite literally nothing to a behemoth larger than the film or television industries. This enormous change in the shape of cultural production has failed to make much of an impact on the study of culture more generally, partly because video games seem so much less culturally important than novels. No one has ever imagined the Great American Video Game. But video games have more in com…
Take My Breath Away
Take My Breath Away Eric Hayot (bio) In the middle of everything—in the middle of everything—here we are. Breathing. Not breathing. Choking on the fumes of the history we inherit: climate change, white supremacy, global pandemic. Waiting for the great exhale. At the dedication of St. Gaudens' Boston monument to the first Black regiment raised in the North to fight in the Civil War, Robert Lowell said, William James "could almost hear the bronze N…
Only Persons Intend
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