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BL
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585917
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b415136
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| Main Entry
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Kadir, Djelal
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| Title & Author
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Memos from the besieged city : : lifelines for cultural sustainability /\ Djelal Kadir
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| Publication Statement
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Stanford, Calif. :: Stanford University Press,, c2011
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| Series Statement
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Cultural memory in the present
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xiv, 272 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780804770491 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0804770492 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780804770507 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0804770506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Subject
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Comparative literature
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Literature-- History and criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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809
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| LC Classification
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PN871.K24 2011
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