The Resource What is world literature?, David Damrosch
What is world literature?, David Damrosch
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- Summary
- World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes of world literature, What is world literature? probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a rapidly changing world. In case studies ranging from the Sumerians to the Aztecs and from medieval mysticism to postmodern metafiction, David Damrosch looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. Presenting world literature not as a canon of texts but as a mode of circulation and of reading, Damrosch argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. When it is effectively presented, a work of world literature moves into an elliptical space created between the source and receiving cultures, shaped by both but circumscribed by neither alone. Established classics and new discoveries alike participate in this mode of circulation, but they can be seriously mishandled in the process. From the rediscovered Epic of Gilgamesh in the nineteenth century to Rigoberta Mench's writing today, foreign works have often been distorted by the immediate needs of their own editors and translators
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 324 pages)
- Contents
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- INTRODUCTION: Goethe coins a phrase
- PART ONE: CIRCULATION
- Gilgamesh's quest
- The pope's blowgun
- From the old world to the whole world
- PART TWO: TRANSLATION
- Love in the necropolis
- The afterlife of Mechthild von Magdeburg
- Kafka comes home
- PART THREE: PRODUCTION
- English in the world
- Rigoberta Menchú in print
- The poisoned book
- CONCLUSION: World enough and time
- Isbn
- 9780691049861
- Label
- What is world literature?
- Title
- What is world literature?
- Statement of responsibility
- David Damrosch
- Subject
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- Canon
- Canon (Literature)
- Canon (Literature)
- Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
- Comparative literature
- Comparative literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Literatura (história e crítica)
- Literatura comparada
- Literature
- Literature -- History and criticism
- Littérature -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature comparée
- Traduction littéraire
- Translating and interpreting
- Translating and interpreting
- Vertalen
- Weltliteratur
- Wereldliteratuur
- Übersetzung
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes of world literature, What is world literature? probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a rapidly changing world. In case studies ranging from the Sumerians to the Aztecs and from medieval mysticism to postmodern metafiction, David Damrosch looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. Presenting world literature not as a canon of texts but as a mode of circulation and of reading, Damrosch argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. When it is effectively presented, a work of world literature moves into an elliptical space created between the source and receiving cultures, shaped by both but circumscribed by neither alone. Established classics and new discoveries alike participate in this mode of circulation, but they can be seriously mishandled in the process. From the rediscovered Epic of Gilgamesh in the nineteenth century to Rigoberta Mench's writing today, foreign works have often been distorted by the immediate needs of their own editors and translators
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- OCLCE
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Damrosch, David
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
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- Literature
- Comparative literature
- Translating and interpreting
- Canon (Literature)
- Littérature
- Littérature comparée
- Traduction littéraire
- Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Canon (Literature)
- Comparative literature
- Literature
- Translating and interpreting
- Wereldliteratuur
- Canon
- Vertalen
- Weltliteratur
- Übersetzung
- Literatura (história e crítica)
- Literatura comparada
- Label
- What is world literature?, David Damrosch
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- cr
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- rdacarrier
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- black and white
- Content category
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: Goethe coins a phrase -- PART ONE: CIRCULATION -- Gilgamesh's quest -- The pope's blowgun -- From the old world to the whole world -- PART TWO: TRANSLATION -- Love in the necropolis -- The afterlife of Mechthild von Magdeburg -- Kafka comes home -- PART THREE: PRODUCTION -- English in the world -- Rigoberta Menchú in print -- The poisoned book -- CONCLUSION: World enough and time
- Control code
- ocn606929905
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 324 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691049861
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- lossless
- lossy
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
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- 9780691049861
- 40009002457
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv32280f
- Reformatting quality
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- preservation
- access
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)606929905
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- What is world literature?, David Damrosch
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from original
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: Goethe coins a phrase -- PART ONE: CIRCULATION -- Gilgamesh's quest -- The pope's blowgun -- From the old world to the whole world -- PART TWO: TRANSLATION -- Love in the necropolis -- The afterlife of Mechthild von Magdeburg -- Kafka comes home -- PART THREE: PRODUCTION -- English in the world -- Rigoberta Menchú in print -- The poisoned book -- CONCLUSION: World enough and time
- Control code
- ocn606929905
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 324 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691049861
- Level of compression
-
- lossless
- lossy
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
-
- 9780691049861
- 40009002457
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv32280f
- Reformatting quality
-
- preservation
- access
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)606929905
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Canon
- Canon (Literature)
- Canon (Literature)
- Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
- Comparative literature
- Comparative literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Literatura (história e crítica)
- Literatura comparada
- Literature
- Literature -- History and criticism
- Littérature -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature comparée
- Traduction littéraire
- Translating and interpreting
- Translating and interpreting
- Vertalen
- Weltliteratur
- Wereldliteratuur
- Übersetzung
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
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