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What is world literature? /

World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Damrosch, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Colección:Translation/transnation.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • INTRODUCTION: Goethe coins a phrase
  • PART ONE: CIRCULATION
  • Gilgamesh's quest
  • The pope's blowgun
  • From the old world to the whole world
  • PART TWO: TRANSLATION
  • Love in the necropolis
  • The afterlife of Mechthild von Magdeburg
  • Kafka comes home
  • PART THREE: PRODUCTION
  • English in the world
  • Rigoberta Menchú in print
  • The poisoned book
  • CONCLUSION: World enough and time.