Thinking literature across continents / / Ranjan Ghosh, J. Hillis Miller.

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 lit...

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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (337 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Thinking across continents / Ranjan Ghosh
  • Introduction continued: The idiosyncrasy of the literary text / J. Hillis Miller
  • Making Sahitya matter / Ranjan Ghosh
  • Literature matters today / J. Hillis Miller
  • The story of a poem / Ranjan Ghosh
  • Western theories of poetry : reading Wallace Stevens's "The motive for metaphor"
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  • More than global / Ranjan Ghosh
  • Globalization and world literature / J. Hillis Miller
  • Reinventing the teaching machine : looking for a text in an Indian classroom / Ranjan Ghosh
  • Should we read or teach literature now? / J. Hillis Miller
  • The ethics of reading Sahitya / Ranjan Ghosh
  • Literature and ethics : truth and lie in Framley parsonage / J. Hillis Miller.