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Memos from the besieged city : lifelines for cultural sustainability
- Title
- Memos from the besieged city : lifelines for cultural sustainability / Djelal Kadir.
- Author
- Kadir, Djelal.
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 272 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cultural memory in the present
- Uniform Title
- Cultural memory in the present.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-7000
- ISBN
- 9780804770491 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804770492 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804770507 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0804770506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010015071
- OCLC
- YBP 2010015071
- Author
- Kadir, Djelal.
- Title
- Memos from the besieged city : lifelines for cultural sustainability / Djelal Kadir.
- Imprint
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
- Series
- Cultural memory in the presentCultural memory in the present.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-7000