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oapen-20.500.12657-317462021-11-08T09:22:26Z Thinking Literature across Continents Ghosh, Ranjan Miller, J. Hillis Literature Ethics United States bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism '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. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:31 2020-04-01T13:47:58Z 2020-04-01T13:47:58Z 2016-12-02 book 625288 OCN: 940935917 9780822373698 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31746 eng application/pdf n/a 625288.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822373698 100275 10.1215/9780822373698 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822373698 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham NC 100275 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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'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.
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