Books written by Ranjan Ghosh

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  Thinking Literature across Continents

  Thinking Literature across Continents finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters.

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  Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World

  In this edited collection, the contributors - many among the foremost Said scholars in the world - examine Said as the literary critic; his relationship to other major contemporary thinkers (including Derrida, Ricoeur, Barthes and Bloom); ...

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  Philosophy and Poetry: Continental Perspectives

  This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how philosophy has been ...

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  Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia

  This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia.

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  Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet: From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot

  So, 'unknowing, ignorant, I ask for knowledge about it from the poets who know'.35 The omniscient 'knowing' intellect enables ... by my thoughts and utterances spoken to thee, who knowest, O Fire, O Creator, secret words of guidance, ...

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  Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet: From Philip Sidney to T. S. Eliot

  It is in this sense that Carlyle's poet-hero becomes Aurobindo's 'archetypal poet'. The archetypal poet in a world of original ideas is, we may say, a Soul that sees in itself intimately this world and all the others and God and Nature ...

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  Presence: Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the Twenty-First Century

  Runia, “Presence,” 8; Runia, “Spots of Time,” 307. Ankersmit, Sublime Historical Experience, 77. Here too the argument is presented in language that evokes an era of anxiety over the ability to determine friend from foe or right from ...

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  Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World

  In this edited collection, the contributors - many among the foremost Said scholars in the world - examine Said as the literary critic; his relationship to other major contemporary thinkers (including Derrida, Ricoeur, Barthes and Bloom); ...

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  Globalizing Dissent: Essays on Arundhati Roy

  This volume presents Roy's interlocking network of the ideas, attitudes and ideologies that emerge from the contemporary social and the political world.

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  (in)fusion Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits

  ... irresistible ; I have also been both repelled , and oddly fascinated , by drains . Joyce's image of the snot - green sea has also always fascinated me . But I was trying also to describe what chilli sauce seemed to me like in memory ...

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  The Plastic Turn

  The Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature.

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  A Lover's Quarrel with the Past: Romance, Representation, Reading

  ... religious consciousness. Central to Indian historiography is the storytelling ability of the Hindus. In the act of ... experience' is discounted, unlike in the long European tradition of storytelling. The immediacy of personal ...