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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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Introduction : world literature as a pact with books
- Of masters and masterpieces : an empire of books, a mythic European library
- Half epic, half drastic : from a parliament of letters to a national library
- The shadow of empty shelves : two world wars and the rise and fall of world literature
- Windows on the Berlin Wall : unfinished histories of world literature in a divided Germany
- Libraries without walls? : world literature in the digital century
- Epilogue.