Recoding World Literature : Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books / / B. Venkat Mani

• Autore: Mani B. Venkat
• Pubblicazione: Fordham University Press, 2016; Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2016; ©2016
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 pages)
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetto topico: Book industries and trade - Germany - History; Book industries and trade - History; Literature - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Recoding world literature
• ISBN: 9780823273447; 082327344X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910168753703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II