Ranjan Ghosh

Thinking Literature across Continents

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Produktbeschreibung

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English, University of North Bengal, and is the author of, most recently, Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet: From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot. J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine and the author of, most recently, An Innocent Abroad: Lectures in China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361541
• ISBN-10: 082236154X
• Artikelnr.: 44521544

Autorenporträt

Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller

Inhaltsangabe

Preface / J. HIllis Miller  vii
Acknowledgments / Ranjan Ghosh  ix
Acknowledgments / J. Hillis Miller  xi
Introduction: Thinking across Continents / Ranjan Ghosh  1
Introduction Continued: The Idiosyncrasy of the Literary Test / J. Hillis
Miller  9
Part I: The Matter and Mattering of Literature
1. Making Sahitya Matter / Ranjan Ghosh
2. Literature Matters Today / J. Hillis Miller
Part II: Poem and Poetry
3. The Story of a Poem / Ranjan Ghosh  71
4. Western Theories of Poetry: Reading Wallace Stevens's "The Motive for
Metaphor" / J. Hillis Miller  93
Part III: Literature and the World
5. More than Global / Ranjan Ghosh  111
6. Globalization and World Literature / J. Hillis Miller  134
Part IV: Teaching Literature
7. Reinventing the Teaching Machine: Looking for a Text in an Indian
Classroom / Ranjan Ghosh  155
8. Should We Read or Teach Literature Now? / J. Hillis Miller  177
Part V: Ethics and Literature
9. The Ethics of Reading Sahitya / Ranjan Ghosh  207
10. Literature and Ethics: Truth and Lie in Framley Parsonage / J. Hillis
Miller  232
Epilogue / Ranjan Ghosh  259
Notes  263
Bibliography  291
Index  307