What is World Literature?
A stunning achievement. Damrosch gives 'world literature' the largest possible scope--ranging from cuneiform to hieroglyphics, from low German to Nahuatl--a jaunt across several millennia and a dozen languages.--Wai Chee Dimock, Yale UniversityDisplaying great intelligence, immense literary and historical culture, and unassuming modesty, Damrosch intervenes in contemporary debates over 'world literature.' Readers will be dumbfounded by his range. He treats cuneiform-inscribed shards, Egyptian hieroglyphics, medieval German female mystics, Inca chronicles, Kafka translations and contemporary Native protest literature will equal philological at…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-04986-1
- EAN: 9780691049861
- Produktnummer: 9986125
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.0 cm 516 g
- Abbildungen: 12 halftones.
- Gewicht: 516
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Über den Autor
David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and President of the American Comparative Literature Association for 2002/03. His books include The Narrative Covenant, We Scholars, and Meetings of the Mind (Princeton). He is the editor of The Longman Anthology of World Literature.
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