Research Catalog

Title

Readings in world literature / Srikanth Reddy.

Author

Reddy, Srikanth, 1973-

Publication

Richmond, California : Omnidawn Publishing, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vendler, Helen, 1933-
• Omnidawn Publishing publisher.

Description

[6], 33, [3] pages : portrait; 18 cm

Summary

"The daybook of a speaker haunted by the prospect of perpetual night. Cast in the form of lecture notes for an imaginary course in the humanities, this extended prose sequence combines academic satire, a survivor's memoir, translations from obscure works of world literature, and a postmodern journey through the underworlds of various cultures. Accompanied by a class full of skeptical students -- 'some in headscarves, some, occasionally, dressed in fatigues' -- the quixotic protagonist of this volume undertakes to scale the Tower of Babel that is world literature, and learns, in the process, that learning itself may count for precious little in the final reckoning. 'Contrary to the accounts of Mu Lian, Odysseus, and Kwasi Benefo, ' this speaker discovers, 'it is not customarily permitted to visit the underworld. No, the underworld visits you'" -- Page [4] of cover.

Subject

• Digression (Rhetoric) in literature
• Literature > History and criticism
• Digression (Rhétorique) dans la littérature
• Digression (Rhetoric) in literature

Note

• Publisher's statement precedes place of publication on imprint.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781890650643
• 1890650641

OCLC

• 785823237
• SCSB-12806386

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library