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Memos from the besieged city : lifelines for cultural sustainability

Djelal Kadir

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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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