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Thinking Literature across Continents
Book
2016
Published by:
Duke University Press
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Thinking Literature across Continents finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters. Ghosh and Miller do not attempt to formulate a joint theory of literature; rather, they allow their different backgrounds and lively disagreements to stimulate generative dialogue on poetry, world literature, pedagogy, and the ethics of literature. Addressing a varied literary context ranging from Victorian literature, Chinese literary criticism and philosophy, and continental philosophy to Sanskrit poetics and modern European literature, Ghosh offers a transnational theory of literature while Miller emphasizes the need to account for what a text says and how it says it. Thinking Literature across Continents highlights two minds continually discovering new paths of communication and two literary and cultural traditions intersecting in productive and compelling ways.
Table of Contents

Part I: The Matter and Mattering of Literature
Part II: Poem and Poetry
Part III: Literature and the World
Part IV: Teaching Literature
Part V: Ethics and Literature
ISBN | 9780822373698 |
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Related ISBN(s) | 9780822361541, 9780822362449, 9781478091127 |
DOI | 10.1353/book.64073![]() |
MARC Record | Download |
OCLC | 1103894079 |
Pages | 330 |
Launched on MUSE | 2019-06-24 |
Language | English |
Open Access | Yes |
Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC-ND |
Copyright
2016