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Memos from the besieged city : lifelines for cultural sustainability /
This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature--the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers--at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and mi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cultural memory in the present.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 José 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.