What Is World Literature? by David Damrosch

What Is World Literature? by David Damrosch

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Zusammenfassung

Probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a changing world. This book looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. It argues that world literature is work that gains in translation.

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What Is World Literature? by David Damrosch

Probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a changing world. This book looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. It argues that world literature is work that gains in translation.
"What Is World Literature? has become a touchstone of every debate on the subject"---Alexander Beecroft, Modern Philology
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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ISBN 13 9780691049861
ISBN 10 0691049866
Titel What Is World Literature?
Autor David Damrosch
Serie Translation Transnation
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2003-03-30
Seitenanzahl 344
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