Thinking Literature across Continents

• Main Author: Ghosh, Ranjan (auth)
• Other Authors: Miller, J. Hillis (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Durham NC Duke University Press 2016
• Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literature; Ethics; United States
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

'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. This book highlights two minds continually discovering new paths of communication and two literary and cultural traditions intersecting in productive and compelling ways.