Memos from the besieged city [electronic resource] : lifelines for cultural sustainability / Djelal Kadir.
By: Kadir, Djelal.
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BookSeries: Cultural memory in the present: Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011Description: xiv, 272 p.Subject(s): Comparative literature | Literature -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
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