How to Read World Literature

by Damrosch, David

• ISBN13: 9781405168267
• ISBN10: 1405168269
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

How to Read World Literature addresses the unique challenges faced by a reader confronting foreign literature. Accessible and enlightening, Damrosch offers readers the tools to navigate works as varied as Homer, Sophocles, Kalidasa, Du Fu, Dante, Murasaki, Moliere, Kafka, Soyinka, and Walcott. Offers a unique "set of modes of entry" for readers encountering foreign literature Provides readers with the tools to think creatively and systematically about key issues such as reading across time and cultures, reading translated works, and emerging global perspectives Covers a wide variety of genres, from lyric and epic poetry to drama and prose fiction and discuss how these forms have been used in different eras and cultures

Author Biography

David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Professor Damrosch's most recent publication is What Is World Literature? (2003), but he is perhaps best known as the general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature and of The Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004). From 2001 to 2003 he was President of the American Comparative Literature Association.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
What Is "Literature"?	p. 6
Reading across Time	p. 24
Reading across Cultures	p. 46
Reading in Translation	p. 65
Going Abroad	p. 86
Going Global	p. 105
Epilogue: Going Farther	p. 125
Bibliography	p. 130
Index	p. 136
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