Kadir, Djelal. <br/><br/>
Memos from the besieged city  lifelines for cultural sustainability /  [electronic resource] : 
Djelal Kadir. 
 - Stanford, Calif. :  Stanford University Press,  2011. 
 - xiv, 272 p. 
 - Cultural memory in the present .
 - Cultural memory in the present. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2011. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Comparative literature.<br/>Literature--History and criticism.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN871  / .K24 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809