Thinking Literature across Continents

✍ Scribed by Ranjan Ghosh, J. Hillis Miller

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 337
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments (Ranjan Ghosh)
Acknowledgments (J. Hillis Miller)
Introduction: Thinking across Continents
Introduction Continued: The Idiosyncrasy of the Literary Text
Part I: The Matter and Mattering of Literature
Chapter 1. Making Sahitya Matter
Chapter 2. Literature Matters Today
Part II: Poem and Poetry
Chapter 3. The Story of a Poem
Chapter 4. Western Theories of Poetry: Reading Wallace Stevens’s “The Motive for Metaphor”
Part III: Literature and the World
Chapter 5. More than Global
Chapter 6. Globalization and World Literature
Part IV: Teaching Literature
Chapter 7. Reinventing the Teaching Machine: Looking for a Text in an Indian Classroom
Chapter 8. Should We Read or Teach Literature Now?
Part V: Ethics and Literature
Chapter 9. The Ethics of Reading Sahitya
Chapter 10. Literature and Ethics: Truth and Lie in Framley Parsonage
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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