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1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cultural memory in the present
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Cultural memory in the present.
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| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Comparative literature.
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Comparative literature. |
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kadir, Djelal. Memos from the besieged city. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011 9780804770491 (DLC) 2010015071 (OCoLC)606235298 |
| ISBN |
9780804775779 (electronic book) |
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080477577X (electronic book) |
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9780804770491 |
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0804770492 |
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9780804770507 |
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0804770506 |
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