Thinking literature across continents / Ranjan Ghosh, J. Hillis Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghosh, Ranjan, author.

Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Cross-cultural studies.

Literature.

Literature--Study and teaching--Cross-cultural studies.

Culture in literature.

Literature and transnationalism.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Thinking Literature across Continents finds Raman 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. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ghosh, Ranjan, author. Thinking literature across continents.

ISBN:

9780822361541

082236154X

9780822362449

0822362449

OCLC:

936344749