Recoding World Literature : Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books /

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 h...

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Main Author: Mani, B. Venkat (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Prologue -- 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. 
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