How to Read World Literature

• Autore: Damrosch David
• Pubblicazione: Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2017; ©2017
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 pages)
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetto topico: Literature--History and criticism
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What Is "Literature"? -- The World of the Text -- The Author's Role -- Modes of Reading -- What Is a Novel? -- Chapter 2 Reading across Time -- From Orature to Literature -- The Human and the Divine -- Underworld Dreams -- Feminizing Homer -- Gathering Rosebuds -- Chapter 3 Reading across Cultures -- Classical Drama: Greece and India -- Tragic Flaw or Fate? -- Character and Plot -- Scenes from Middle‐Class Life -- Peripheral Reading -- Rereading in Rio -- Chapter 4 Reading in Translation -- Imitation, Paraphrase, and Metaphrase -- Comparing Translations -- How Foreign Should a Translation Be? -- How Do Spartans Speak? -- Chapter 5 Brave New Worlds -- Strangers in a Strange Land -- Real-World Travels -- Journeying to the West -- Fictional Worlds -- Looking Homeward -- Chapter 6 Writing Empire -- Mapping the World -- Darkest Africa, Darkened London -- Elesin, Ogun, and Oedipus -- Candide the Optimist, Saeed the Pessoptimist -- Love in a Fallen City -- Chapter 7 Global Writing -- The Glocal and the Delocalized -- Global Istanbul -- Binational Globalism -- Second-Generation Fictions -- Mutinationalism -- Epilogue: Going Farther -- Bibliography -- Index -- EULA.
• Sommario/riassunto: The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras. Fully revised to address important developments in World Literature, and generously expanded with new material, this second edition covers a wide variety of genres - from lyric and epic poetry to drama and prose fiction - and discusses how each form has been used in different eras and cultures. An ideal introduction for those new to the study of World Literature, as well as beginners to ancient and foreign literature, this book offers a variety of "modes of entry" to reading these texts. The author, a leading authority in the field, draws on years of teaching experience to provide readers with ways of thinking creatively and systematically about key issues, such as reading across time and cultures, reading works in translation, emerging global perspectives, postcolonialism, orality and literacy, and more. Accessible and enlightening, offers readers the tools to navigate works as varied as Homer, Sophocles, Kalidasa, Du Fu, Dante, Murasaki, Moliere, Kafka, Wole Soyinka, and Derek Walcott Fully revised and expanded to reflect the changing face of the study of World Literature, especially in the English-speaking world Now includes more major authors featured in the undergraduate World Literature syllabus covered within a fuller critical context Features an entirely new chapter on the relationship between World Literature and postcolonial literature How to Read World Literature, Second Edition is an excellent text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in World Literature. It is also a fascinating and informative read for all readers with an interest in foreign and ancient literature and the history of civilization.
• Titolo autorizzato: How to Read World Literature
• ISBN: 9781119009238; 9781119009160
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910974797703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: How to Study Literature Ser.