xiii, 316 pages : 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: Thinking across continents / Ranjan Ghosh -- Introduction continued: The idiosyncrasy of the literary text / J. Hillis Miller -- Making Sahitya matter / Ranjan Ghosh -- Literature matters today / J. Hillis Miller -- The story of a poem / Ranjan Ghosh -- Western theories of poetry : reading Wallace Stevens's "The motive for metaphor" -- / J. Hillis Miller -- More than global / Ranjan Ghosh -- Globalization and world literature / J. Hillis Miller -- Reinventing the teaching machine : looking for a text in an Indian classroom / Ranjan Ghosh -- Should we read or teach literature now? / J. Hillis Miller -- The ethics of reading Sahitya / Ranjan Ghosh -- Literature and ethics : truth and lie in Framley parsonage / J. Hillis Miller