TY  - BOOK
AU  - Damrosch,David
TI  - What Is World Literature?
T2  - Translation/Transnation
SN  - 9780691188645
U1  - 809 21
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Canon (Literature)
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Translating and interpreting
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Archetype
KW  - Author
KW  - Bei Dao
KW  - Berossus
KW  - Book of Job
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - Critical theory
KW  - Cultural hegemony
KW  - Cultural homogenization
KW  - David Stoll
KW  - Decolonization
KW  - Determinative
KW  - Diary
KW  - Don Quixote
KW  - Edition (book)
KW  - Editorial
KW  - En route (novel)
KW  - English novel
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Enkidu
KW  - Epigraph (literature)
KW  - Erudition
KW  - Essay
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Existentialism
KW  - Ezra Pound
KW  - Foray
KW  - Franz Kafka
KW  - G. (novel)
KW  - Gilgamesh
KW  - Hack writer
KW  - Hafez
KW  - Hebraist
KW  - Historia Calamitatum
KW  - Historicism
KW  - How It Happened
KW  - Humbaba
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Indian literature
KW  - Jacques Lacan
KW  - Jingoism
KW  - John Barth
KW  - Liberation theology
KW  - Literary agent
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - Literary realism
KW  - Literary theory
KW  - Louis Untermeyer
KW  - Malcolm Muggeridge
KW  - Mark Twain
KW  - Medieval Hebrew
KW  - Medieval Latin
KW  - Metafiction
KW  - Metonymy
KW  - Miguel Ángel Asturias
KW  - Misery (novel)
KW  - Modernism
KW  - Narcissism
KW  - New Criticism
KW  - New Historicism
KW  - Northrop Frye
KW  - Novel
KW  - Novelist
KW  - Novelization
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - P. G. Wodehouse
KW  - People's history
KW  - Petrarchan sonnet
KW  - Phonocentrism
KW  - Picaresque novel
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Point of Origin (novel)
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - Post-structuralism
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Preface
KW  - Prose
KW  - Psmith
KW  - Radicalism (historical)
KW  - Religion
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - S. (Dorst novel)
KW  - Shakespeare's plays
KW  - Splintered (novel series)
KW  - The New York Review of Books
KW  - The Tale of the Heike
KW  - The Teachings of Don Juan
KW  - Uqbar
KW  - Utnapishtim
KW  - Vladimir Nabokov
KW  - Warfare
KW  - Western literature
KW  - Westernization
KW  - World literature
KW  - Writer's block
KW  - Writing
KW  - Wyndham Lewis
KW  - Zionism
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION: Goethe Coins a Phrase --; PART ONE. CIRCULATION --; 1. Gilgamesh’s Quest --; 2. The Pope’s Blowgun --; 3. From the Old World to the Whole World --; PART TWO. TRANSLATION --; 4. Love in the Necropolis --; 5. The Afterlife of Mechthild von Magdeburg --; 6. Kafka Comes Home --; PART THREE. PRODUCTION --; 7. English in the World --; 8. Rigoberta Menchú in Print --; 9. The Poisoned Book --; CONCLUSION: World Enough and Time --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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 of world literature, What Is World Literature? probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a rapidly changing world. In case studies ranging from the Sumerians to the Aztecs and from medieval mysticism to postmodern metafiction, David Damrosch looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. Presenting world literature not as a canon of texts but as a mode of circulation and of reading, Damrosch argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. When it is effectively presented, a work of world literature moves into an elliptical space created between the source and receiving cultures, shaped by both but circumscribed by neither alone. Established classics and new discoveries alike participate in this mode of circulation, but they can be seriously mishandled in the process. From the rediscovered Epic of Gilgamesh in the nineteenth century to Rigoberta Menchú's writing today, foreign works have often been distorted by the immediate needs of their own editors and translators. Eloquently written, argued largely by example, and replete with insightful close readings, this book is both an essay in definition and a series of cautionary tales
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