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…mehr
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.
Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English at the University of North Bengal. He is widely published in journals like The Oxford Literary Review, History and Theory, parallax, Rethinking History, South Asia, SubStance, symploke, The Comparatist and others. Among his recent books include Lover's Quarrel with the Past: Romance, Representation, Reading (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012), Edward Said, the Literary, Social and the Political World (New York: Routledge, 2009), Making Sense of the Secular (New York: Routledge, 2012), Presence: Philosophy, History and Cultural Theory for the 21st Century (Cornell University Press, 2013, with Ethan Kleinberg). To know more about his work one may visit his website: http://www.ranjanghosh.com
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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
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
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