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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Hovedforfatter: Mani, B. Venkat (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Udgivelse:First edition.
Serier:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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.