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- Thinking Literature across Continents
- 2016
- Book
- 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. This book highlights two minds continually discovering new paths of communication and two literary and cultural traditions intersecting in productive and compelling ways.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Part I: The Matter and Mattering of Literature
- Chapter 1. Making Sahitya Matter
- pp. 27-44
- Chapter 2. Literature Matters Today
- pp. 45-68
- Part II: Poem and Poetry
- Chapter 3. The Story of a Poem
- pp. 71-92
- Part III: Literature and the World
- Chapter 5. More than Global
- pp. 111-133
- Part IV: Teaching Literature
- Part V: Ethics and Literature
- Chapter 9. The Ethics of Reading Sahitya
- pp. 207-231
- Bibliography
- pp. 291-306
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822373698
Related ISBN
9780822361541
MARC Record
OCLC
1103894079
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2019-06-24
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
