Umfang:
XIV, 272 S.
ISBN:
9780804770507
,
9780804770491
Serie:
Cultural memory in the present
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-261) and index
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Mehr zum Autor:
Kadir, Djelal 1946-
