How to read world literature
Material type: TextPublication details: 2009 UK Wiley-BlackwellDescription: 139pISBN: 9781405168267Subject(s): Literature | History,description- literature | Reading across time | Reading in translationDDC classification: 809 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 discusses how these forms have been used in different eras and cultures, and examples from authors and texts as varied as The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer, Sophocles. Kalidasa, Du Fu, Murasaki, The 1001 nights, Moliere, Conrad, Soyinka and Walcott.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Stack | 809 DAM/H (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 27078 |
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 discusses how these forms have been used in different eras and cultures, and examples from authors and texts as varied as The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer, Sophocles. Kalidasa, Du Fu, Murasaki, The 1001 nights, Moliere, Conrad, Soyinka and Walcott.
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