Kadir, Djelal.
Memos from the besieged city lifelines for cultural sustainability / [electronic resource] : Djelal Kadir. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011. - xiv, 272 p. - Cultural memory in the present . - Cultural memory in the present. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Jos�e 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Comparative literature.
Literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN871 / .K24 2011eb
809
Memos from the besieged city lifelines for cultural sustainability / [electronic resource] : Djelal Kadir. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011. - xiv, 272 p. - Cultural memory in the present . - Cultural memory in the present. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Jos�e 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Comparative literature.
Literature--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PN871 / .K24 2011eb
809