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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David DamroschPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691234557ISBN 10: 0691234558 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 08 February 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews"""How does globalism affect the books we read, and the way we read them? A leading scholar investigates."" * New York Times Book Review * ""Few scholars active today can claim to have done as much as David Damrosch to shape the discipline of comparative literature in the United States. . . . Damrosch writes with great clarity and care, vividly bringing individual figures and their ideas to life. . . . [He] not only displays the breadth of his own personal canon, but also argues compellingly for the idea that our understanding of a given text is always enhanced by comparing it with other texts, whether or not the pairings are conventional or expected.""---Alexander Beecroft, Modern Philology" How does globalism affect the books we read, and the way we read them? A leading scholar investigates. * New York Times Book Review * Few scholars active today can claim to have done as much as David Damrosch to shape the discipline of comparative literature in the United States. . . . Damrosch writes with great clarity and care, vividly bringing individual figures and their ideas to life. . . . [He] not only displays the breadth of his own personal canon, but also argues compellingly for the idea that our understanding of a given text is always enhanced by comparing it with other texts, whether or not the pairings are conventional or expected. ---Alexander Beecroft, Modern Philology Author InformationDavid Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature and director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University, and a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association. His many books include What Is World Literature? (Princeton), the coedited Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature, The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, and We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |