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Memos from the besieged city : lifelines for cultural sustainability
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Memos from the besieged city : lifelines for cultural sustainability / Djelal Kadir.
ISBN
9780804770491 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804770492 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804770507 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804770506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xiv, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 09, 2010
Series
Cultural memory in the present
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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