How Literatures Begin: A Global History

Author:   Joel B. Lande ,  Denis Feeney
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
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9780691186528


Pages:   448
Publication Date:   20 July 2021
Format:   Paperback
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A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern times Literature is such a familiar and widespread form of imaginative expression today that its existence can seem inevitable. But in fact very few languages ever developed the full-fl

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Author:   Joel B. Lande ,  Denis Feeney
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
ISBN:  

9780691186528


ISBN 10:   0691186529
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   20 July 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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[What] is so wonderful about reading How Literatures Begin is the sense one comes away with, that it is somehow both inevitable and truly miraculous that any of these literatures should have come into being-and just how many more are out there for us readers to discover and explore in-depth. ---Jeffrey Zuckerman, World Literature Today


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Joel B. Lande is assistant professor of German at Princeton University and the author of Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature. Denis Feeney is the Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. His books include Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature.

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