What Is World Literature?

Name: What Is World Literature?
Price: 7.38 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780691049861

ISBN-10: 0691049866

ISBN-13: 9780691049861

Edition: 2003

Authors: David Damrosch

List price: $48.00

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $38.33

Marketplace

5 new & used from $7.38

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In case studies, ranging from the Sumerians to the Aztecs, the medieval to the post-modern, this text explores the way works of literature change as they move from national to global contexts.

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of "The Narrative Covenant" and "We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University" and the general editor of "The Longman Anthology of British Literature".



List Of Illustrations


Acknowledgments xi


Introduction: Goethe Coins a Phrase



Circulation



Gilgamesh's Quest



The Pope's Blowgun



From the Old World to the Whole World



Translation



Love in the Necropolis



The Afterlife of Mechthild von Magdeburg



Kafka Comes Home



Production



English in the World



Rigoberta Menchuacute; in Print



The Poisoned Book


Conclusion: World Enough and Time


Bibliography


Index 319