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Recoding World Literature Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books / B. Venkat Mani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mani, B. Venkat, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book industries and trade--Germany--History.
- Book industries and trade.
- Book industries and trade--History.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Fordham University Press 2016
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780823273447
- 082327344X
- OCLC:
- 959273628
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