TY  - BOOK
AU  - Damrosch,David
TI  - How to Read World Literature
T2  - New York Academy of Sciences Series
SN  - 9781119009238
AV  - PN524 .D367 2018 
U1  - 809 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Newark
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
KW  - Literature and globalization
KW  - Literature-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What Is "Literature"? -- The World of the Text -- The Author's Role -- Modes of Reading -- What Is a Novel? -- Chapter 2 Reading across Time -- From Orature to Literature -- The Human and the Divine -- Underworld Dreams -- Feminizing Homer -- Gathering Rosebuds -- Chapter 3 Reading across Cultures -- Classical Drama: Greece and India -- Tragic Flaw or Fate? -- Character and Plot -- Scenes from Middle‐Class Life -- Peripheral Reading -- Rereading in Rio -- Chapter 4 Reading in Translation -- Imitation, Paraphrase, and Metaphrase -- Comparing Translations -- How Foreign Should a Translation Be? -- How Do Spartans Speak? -- Chapter 5 Brave New Worlds -- Strangers in a Strange Land -- Real-World Travels -- Journeying to the West -- Fictional Worlds -- Looking Homeward -- Chapter 6 Writing Empire -- Mapping the World -- Darkest Africa, Darkened London -- Elesin, Ogun, and Oedipus -- Candide the Optimist, Saeed the Pessoptimist -- Love in a Fallen City -- Chapter 7 Global Writing -- The Glocal and the Delocalized -- Global Istanbul -- Binational Globalism -- Second-Generation Fictions -- Mutinationalism -- Epilogue: Going Farther -- Bibliography -- Index -- EULA
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