02639oam 22005654a 450 991016875370332120230621135340.09780823273447082327344X(CKB)3710000000871388(MiAaPQ)EBC4681109(OCoLC)959273628(MdBmJHUP)muse52694(OCoLC)962452215(ScCtBLL)65b296e3-600e-435d-8dd0-92c15c477217(Perlego)2329896(oapen)doab34388(EXLCZ)99371000000087138820160926d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierRecoding World LiteratureLibraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books /B. Venkat ManiFirst edition.Fordham University Press2016Baltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2016©20161 online resource (360 pages)9780823273409 0823273407 Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index.Prologue -- Introduction : world literature as a pact with books -- 1. Of masters and masterpieces : an empire of books, a mythic European library -- 2. Half epic, half drastic : from a parliament of letters to a national library -- 3. The shadow of empty shelves : two world wars and the rise and fall of world literature -- 4. Windows on the Berlin Wall : unfinished histories of world literature in a divided Germany -- 5. Libraries without walls? World literature in the digital century -- Epilogue.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.Book industries and tradeGermanyHistoryBook industries and tradeHistoryLiteratureHistory and criticismElectronic books. Book industries and tradeHistory.Book industries and tradeHistory.LiteratureHistory and criticism.809Mani B. Venkat858287MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910168753703321Recoding world literature1938722UNINA