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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'--the physical and virtual movement of books--Mani narr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mani, B. Venkat (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.