| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages) |
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Introduction: Thinking across continents / Ranjan Ghosh -- Introduction continued: The idiosyncrasy of the literary text / J. Hillis Miller -- Making Sahitya matter / Ranjan Ghosh -- Literature matters today / J. Hillis Miller -- The story of a poem / Ranjan Ghosh -- Western theories of poetry : reading Wallace Stevens's "The motive for metaphor" -- / J. Hillis Miller -- More than global / Ranjan Ghosh -- Globalization and world literature / J. Hillis Miller -- Reinventing the teaching machine : looking for a text in an Indian classroom / Ranjan Ghosh -- Should we read or teach literature now? / J. Hillis Miller -- The ethics of reading Sahitya / Ranjan Ghosh -- Literature and ethics : truth and lie in Framley parsonage / J. Hillis Miller |
| Summary |
'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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English |
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| Subject |
Literature -- Cross-cultural studies
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Literature -- Study and teaching -- Cross-cultural studies
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Culture in literature.
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Literature and transnationalism.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature and literary studies.
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Literature: history and criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Culture in literature
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Literature
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Literature and transnationalism
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Literature -- Philosophy
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Literature -- Study and teaching
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021, author
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| LC no. |
2016025625 |
| ISBN |
9780822373698 |
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0822373696 |
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