Thinking Literature across Continents /

'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 t...

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Main Authors: Ghosh, Ranjan (Author), Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.