Memos from the besieged city [electronic resource] : lifelines for cultural sustainability / Djelal Kadir
- Author
- Kadir, Djelal
- Published
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 272 p. ; 22 cm.
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- Contents
- Introduction : comparative touchstones of literature -- Auerbach's scar -- The siege of Baghdad : Rashiduddin Fazlullah, Orhan Pamuk, and the commissions of history -- Of learned ignorance : Nicholas of Cusa and cardinal spaces of culture -- Memories of the future : Giordano Bruno remembers us -- A carceral archive and the culture of conspiracy : Fray José Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y Guerra, enlightenment's contestant -- The arts of mitigation, the garden in the barbarian : Zbigniew Herbert -- The labors of Cassandra : Arendt in Jerusalem -- The People's Republic and the republic of letters : the alarming Gao Xingjian -- Memo from the next millennium : a coda for Calvino -- The inventions of comparative literature : a minute on method.
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- 9780804770491 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804770507 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-261) and index.
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