Thinking Literature across Continents

Ranjan Ghosh teaches in the Department of English, University of North Bengal, and is the author of, most recently, Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet: From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot. J. Hillis Miller is UCI Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine and the author of, most recently, An Innocent Abroad: Lectures in China.

Preface / J. HIllis Miller  vii

Acknowledgments / Ranjan Ghosh  ix

Acknowledgments / J. Hillis Miller  xi

Introduction: Thinking across Continents / Ranjan Ghosh  1

Introduction Continued: The Idiosyncrasy of the Literary Test / J. Hillis Miller  9

Part I: The Matter and Mattering of Literature

1. Making Sahitya Matter / Ranjan Ghosh

2. Literature Matters Today / J. Hillis Miller

Part II: Poem and Poetry

3. The Story of a Poem / Ranjan Ghosh  71

4. Western Theories of Poetry: Reading Wallace Stevens's "The Motive for Metaphor" / J. Hillis Miller  93

Part III: Literature and the World

5. More than Global / Ranjan Ghosh  111

6. Globalization and World Literature / J. Hillis Miller  134

Part IV: Teaching Literature

7. Reinventing the Teaching Machine: Looking for a Text in an Indian Classroom / Ranjan Ghosh  155

8. Should We Read or Teach Literature Now? / J. Hillis Miller  177

Part V: Ethics and Literature

9. The Ethics of Reading Sahitya / Ranjan Ghosh  207

10. Literature and Ethics: Truth and Lie in Framley Parsonage / J. Hillis Miller  232

Epilogue / Ranjan Ghosh  259

Notes  263

Bibliography  291

Index  307