Ghosh Ranjan Ghosh

Thinking Literature across Continents (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373698
• Artikelnr.: 54664021

Autorenporträt

Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller

Inhaltsangabe

Preface / J. HIllis Miller  vii
Acknowledgments / Ranjan Ghosh  ix
Acknowledgments / J. Hillis Miller  xi
Introduction: Thinking across Continents / Ranjan Ghosh  1
Introduction Continued: The Idiosyncrasy of the Literary Test / J. Hillis
Miller  9
Part I: The Matter and Mattering of Literature
1. Making Sahitya Matter / Ranjan Ghosh
2. Literature Matters Today / J. Hillis Miller
Part II: Poem and Poetry
3. The Story of a Poem / Ranjan Ghosh  71
4. Western Theories of Poetry: Reading Wallace Stevens's "The Motive for
Metaphor" / J. Hillis Miller  93
Part III: Literature and the World
5. More than Global / Ranjan Ghosh  111
6. Globalization and World Literature / J. Hillis Miller  134
Part IV: Teaching Literature
7. Reinventing the Teaching Machine: Looking for a Text in an Indian
Classroom / Ranjan Ghosh  155
8. Should We Read or Teach Literature Now? / J. Hillis Miller  177
Part V: Ethics and Literature
9. The Ethics of Reading Sahitya / Ranjan Ghosh  207
10. Literature and Ethics: Truth and Lie in Framley Parsonage / J. Hillis
Miller  232
Epilogue / Ranjan Ghosh  259
Notes  263
Bibliography  291
Index  307