Recoding world literature : libraries, print culture, and Germany's pact with books / B. Venkat Mani.
"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 narr...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| 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. Mani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation's relationship with print culture--a Faustian pact with books. 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. Shifting current scholarship's focus from the academic to the general reader, from the university to the public sphere, Recoding World Literature argues that world literature is culturally determined, historically conditioned, and politically charged."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 pages : illustrations, maps) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823273423 0823273423 9780823273430 0823273431 9780823273447 082327344X 9780823273409 9780823273416 |