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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," Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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US :
Fordham University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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," Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. Mani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation's relationship with print culture. Moving from early Orientalist collections, to the Nazi magazine Weltliteratur, to the European Digital Library, Mani reveals. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (360 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780823273430 0823273431 9780823273447 082327344X |