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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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Palo Alto :
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:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: Comparative Touchstones of Literature; 1. Auerbach's Scar; 2. The Siege of Baghdad: Rashiduddin Fazlullah, Orhan Pamuk, and the Commissions of History; 3. Of Learned Ignorance: Nicholas of Cusa and Cardinal Spaces of Culture; 4. Memories of the Future: Giordano Bruno Remembers Us; 5. A Carceral Archive and the Culture of Conspiracy: Fray José Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y Guerra, Enlightenment's Contestant; 6. The Arts of Mitigation, the Garden in the Barbarian: Zbigniew Herbert; 7. The Labors of Cassandra: Arendt in Jerusalem.
- 8. The People's Republic and the Republic of Letters: The Alarming Gao Xingjian9. Memo from the Next Millennium: A Coda for Calvino; Epilogue: The Inventions of Comparative Literature: A Minute on Method; Notes; Bibliography; Index.