| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 electronic resource (348 pages) |
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text file |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index. |
| Summary |
"From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of 'bibliomigrancy'--the physical and virtual movement of books--Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. Mani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation's relationship with print culture--a Faustian pact with books. Moving from early Orientalist collections, to the Nazi magazine Weltliteratur, to the European Digital Library, Mani reveals the political foundations for a history of world literature that is at once a philosophical ideal, a process of exchange, a mode of reading, and a system of classification. Shifting current scholarship's focus from the academic to the general reader, from the university to the public sphere, Recoding World Literature argues that world literature is culturally determined, historically conditioned, and politically charged."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction : world literature as a pact with books -- 1. Of masters and masterpieces : an empire of books, a mythic European library -- 2. Half epic, half drastic : from a parliament of letters to a national library -- 3. The shadow of empty shelves : two world wars and the rise and fall of world literature -- 4. Windows on the Berlin Wall : unfinished histories of world literature in a divided Germany -- 5. Libraries without walls? World literature in the digital century -- Epilogue. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Germany.
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Books and reading. |
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Germany. |
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Literature in libraries.
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Literature in libraries. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| In: |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access. JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). OAPEN |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Recoding world literature New York : Fordham University Press, 2017. 9780823273409 (hardcover) (DLC) 2017287085 |
| ISBN |
9780823273409 hardcover |
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0823273407 hardcover |
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9780823273416 paperback |
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0823273415 paperback |
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9780823273447 (electronic book) |
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082327344X (electronic book) |
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9780823273430 |
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0823273431 |
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9780823273423 (online) |
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0823273423 |
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