| Thinking Literature across Continents Contributor(s): Ghosh, Ranjan (Author) |
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ISBN: 082236154X ISBN-13: 9780822361541 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 809 |
| LCCN: 2016024761 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.25 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |