Memos from the besieged city : lifelines for cultural sustainability / / Djelal Kadir.
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| Superior document: | Cultural memory in the present |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural memory in the present.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 272 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : comparative touchstones of literature
- Auerbach's scar
- The siege of Baghdad : Rashiduddin Fazlullah, Orhan Pamuk, and the commissions of history
- Of learned ignorance : Nicholas of Cusa and cardinal spaces of culture
- Memories of the future : Giordano Bruno remembers us
- A carceral archive and the culture of conspiracy : Fray Jose Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y Guerra, enlightenment's contestant
- The arts of mitigation, the garden in the barbarian : Zbigniew Herbert
- The labors of Cassandra : Arendt in Jerusalem
- The People's Republic and the republic of letters : the alarming Gao Xingjian
- Memo from the next millennium : a coda for Calvino
- The inventions of comparative literature : a minute on method.