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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham NC Duke University Press 2016

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

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.

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.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822373698

0822373696

OCLC:

940935917

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373698