Jonathan Hart is Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. He is Contributing Editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature and author of Theater and the World: the Problematics of Shakespeare’s History.

• Preface 1 The theoretical imagination 2 Reconstructing Blake 3 Reconstructing criticism 4 The Great Code 5 History 6 On education 7 Mythology and ideology 8 A visionary criticism 9 The critic as writer 10 The power of words

Jonathan Hart is Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. He is Contributing Editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature and author of Theater and the World: the Problematics of Shakespeare’s History.

• Preface 1 The theoretical imagination 2 Reconstructing Blake 3 Reconstructing criticism 4 The Great Code 5 History 6 On education 7 Mythology and ideology 8 A visionary criticism 9 The critic as writer 10 The power of words

Jonathan Hart is Associate Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. He is Contributing Editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature and author of Theater and the World: the Problematics of Shakespeare’s History.

• Preface 1 The theoretical imagination 2 Reconstructing Blake 3 Reconstructing criticism 4 The Great Code 5 History 6 On education 7 Mythology and ideology 8 A visionary criticism 9 The critic as writer 10 The power of words