LEADER 03734nam 22005895 450 001 996478969603316 005 20230808205945.0 010 $a0-8232-7343-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823273430 035 $a(CKB)4390000000004109 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4803753 035 $a(DE-B1597)555004 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823273430 035 $a(OCoLC)962452215 035 $a(EXLCZ)994390000000004109 100 $a20200723h20162017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRecoding World Literature $eLibraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books /$fB. Venkat Mani 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cFordham University Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (359 pages) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tRecoding World Literature -- $tContents -- $tPrologue -- $tIntroduction: World Literature as a Pact with Books -- $tChapter 1. Of Masters and Masterpieces: An Empire of Books, a Mythic European Library -- $tChapter 2. Half Epic, Half Drastic: From a Parliament of Letters to a National Library -- $tChapter 3. The Shadow of Empty Shelves: Two World Wars and the Rise and Fall of World Literature -- $tChapter 4. Windows on the Berlin Wall: Unfi nished Histories of World Literature in a Divided Germany -- $tChapter 5. Libraries without Walls? World Literature in the Digital Century -- $tEpilogue -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tINDEX 330 $aWinner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language AssociationWinner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies.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. 606 $aBooks and reading$zGermany 606 $aLiterature in libraries 606 $aBooks and reading 610 $aBibliomigrancy. 610 $aBook Series. 610 $aEuropean Digital Library. 610 $aHermann Hesse. 610 $aJohann Wolfgang von Goethe. 610 $aKarl Marx. 610 $aNational Socialism. 610 $aOrientalism. 610 $aTranslation. 610 $aWorld Literature. 615 0$aBooks and reading 615 0$aLiterature in libraries. 615 0$aBooks and reading. 676 $a809.3 700 $aMani$b B. Venkat, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0858287 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996478969603316 996 $aRecoding world literature$91938722 997 $aUNISA