Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/DsBDHfp Memos from the Besieged City Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability By: Djelal Kadir Publisher: Stanford University Press Print ISBN: 9780804770507, 0804770506 eText ISBN: 9780804775779, 080477577X Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2010 Format: EPUB Available from $ 28.00 USD SKU 9780804775779 Memos from the Besieged City argues for the institutional and cultural relevance of literary study through foundational figures, from the 1200s to today, who defied precarious circumstances to make significant contributions to literacy and civilization in the face of infelicitous human acts. Focusing on historically vital crossroads—Baghdad, Florence, Byzantium, Istanbul, Rome, Paris, New York, Mexico City, Jerusalem, Beijing, Stockholm, Warsaw—Kadir looks at how unconventional and nonconformist writings define literacy, culture, and intellectual commitment. Inspired by political refugee and literary scholar Erich Auerbach's path-breaking Mimesis, and informed by late twentieth-century ideological and methodological upheavals, the book reflects on literacy and dissidence at a moment when literary disciplines, canons, and theories are being reassessed under the pressure of globalization and transculturation. At the forefront of an ethical turn in the comparative analysis of cultures and their literary legacies, it reminds us of the best humanity can produce. Additional ISBNs 9780804770491, 0804770492
