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  title info:
    title: Recoding world literature
    sub title: libraries, print culture, and Germany's pact with books
  name:
    name part: Mani, B. Venkat
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: B. Venkat Mani.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: German literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature and globalization
  subject:
    topic: Books
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Books
  subject:
    topic: German literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature and globalization
  classification: PN3331 .M36 2017eb
  classification: 809.3
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)947147158
  identifier: 9780823273447
  identifier: 082327344X
  identifier: 9780823273430
  identifier: 0823273431
  identifier: 0823273407
  identifier: 9780823273409
  identifier: 9780823273416
  identifier: 0823273415
  identifier: 22573/ctt1fzgmfg JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1fzhct7
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 160927
    record change date: 20260122185326.3
    record identifier: in00003912756
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng