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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse
2016
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421500606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
