Memos from the besieged city
Subtitle: lifelines for cultural sustainability
By: Djelal Kadir
Series: Cultural memory in the present; Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780804770491; 9780804770507
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : comparative touchstones of literature; title: Auerbach's scar; title: The siege of Baghdad : Rashiduddin Fazlullah, Orhan Pamuk, and the commissions of history; title: Of learned ignorance : Nicholas of Cusa and cardinal spaces of culture; title: Memories of the future : Giordano Bruno remembers us; title: A carceral archive and the culture of conspiracy : Fray José Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y Guerra, enlightenment's contestant; title: The arts of mitigation, the garden in the barbarian : Zbigniew Herbert; title: The labors of Cassandra : Arendt in Jerusalem; title: The People's Republic and the republic of letters : the alarming Gao Xingjian; title: Memo from the next millennium : a coda for Calvino; title: The inventions of comparative literature : a minute on method.