Thinking literature across continents / Ranjan Ghosh, J. Hillis Miller
- Author
- Ghosh, Ranjan
- Published
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages)
- Additional Creators
- Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-
Access Online
- www.oapen.org , Open Access
- oapen.org , Open Access
- oapen.org , Open Access
- www.oapen.org , Open Access
- Restrictions on Access
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
- Contents
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780822373698 (electronic bk.)
0822373696 (electronic bk.)
9780822361541 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
082236154X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780822362449
0822362449 - Note
- Knowledge Unlatched
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