Thinking Literature across Continents
Thinking Literature across Continents
by Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller
Duke University Press, 2016
ISBNs
Cloth: 978-0-8223-6154-1
Paper: 978-0-8223-6244-9
eISBN: 978-1-4780-9112-7 (OA)
eISBN: 978-0-8223-7369-8 (standard)
About the Book
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.
About the Author
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.
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.
Reviews
-- Y. Shu Choice
-- Susana Onega CounterText
-- Nicholas Royle Comparative Literature Studies
-- Laurent Dubreuil Comparative Literature Studies
"As Ghosh makes a gesture to develop a new sense of universal literature, one that infuses both Western and developing world literary traditions and histories, Miller reflects on the impact of deconstruction and the dominance of new media in Western culture and society, and provides some redemptive values of literature. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty."
-- Y. Shu Choice
"Immensely knowledgeable and thought-provoking."
-- Susana Onega CounterText
"The focus of Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s ambitious, distinctive, and highly engaging book Thinking Literature across Continents is nothing less than the world (the meaning of 'the world' and what is happening to it, above all from the perspective of people involved in education, whether teaching or being taught), together with that seemingly familiar yet peculiar, elusive thing called literature."
-- Nicholas Royle Comparative Literature Studies
"The highest appeal of the volume lies in their recourse to supposedly incommensurable discursive and artistic practices. Each issue at the core of the five parts of the book is treated back to back by Ghosh and Miller, with a laudable desire to engage in some ways of exchange."
-- Laurent Dubreuil Comparative Literature Studies
Tags
Literature, Semiotics & Theory, Study and teaching, Philosophy, Literary Criticism
Open Access Information
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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