Thinking Literature Across Continents

Ghosh, Ranjan/ Miller, J. Hillis

Duke University Press（2016/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822362449
• DDC分類 801.95

Full 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.

Contents

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