Recoding World Literature
Mani, B. Venkat
Recoding World Literature Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books / B. Venkat Mani. - 1 online resource (357 p.)
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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 Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves.Mani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation's relationship with print culture. Moving from early Orientalist collections, to the Nazi magazine Weltliteratur, to the European Digital Library, Mani reveals the political foundations for a history of world literature that is at once a philosophical ideal, a process of exchange, a mode of reading, and a system of classification.
9780823273409
Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
Literature--History and criticism
Electronic books.
Recoding World Literature Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books / B. Venkat Mani. - 1 online resource (357 p.)
Access copy available to the general public.
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 Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves.Mani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation's relationship with print culture. Moving from early Orientalist collections, to the Nazi magazine Weltliteratur, to the European Digital Library, Mani reveals the political foundations for a history of world literature that is at once a philosophical ideal, a process of exchange, a mode of reading, and a system of classification.
9780823273409
Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
Literature--History and criticism
Electronic books.