By Ranjan Ghosh,J. Hillis Miller

Thinking Literature throughout Continents unearths Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from diversified continents, cultures, education, and significant perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it concerns. Ghosh and Miller don't try to formulate a joint thought of literature; particularly, they permit their assorted backgrounds and energetic disagreements to stimulate generative discussion on poetry, global literature, pedagogy, and the ethics of literature. Addressing a assorted literary context starting from Victorian literature, chinese language literary feedback and philosophy, and continental philosophy to Sanskrit poetics and sleek eu literature, Ghosh deals a transnational conception of literature whereas Miller emphasizes the necessity to account for what a textual content says and the way it says it. Thinking Literature throughout Continents highlights minds regularly researching new paths of conversation and literary and cultural traditions intersecting in effective and compelling ways.

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