Recoding world literature : libraries, print culture, and Germany's pact with books
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Title (Dublin Core)
Recoding world literature : libraries, print culture, and Germany's pact with books
Creator (Dublin Core)
Mani, B. Venkat
Date (Dublin Core)
2016
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Fordham University Press
Description (Dublin Core)
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.
Subject (Dublin Core)
Literature and globalization
Books -- Germany
Libraries -- Germany
Language (Dublin Core)
Literature
isbn (Bibliographic Ontology)
9780823273409
