Recoding World Literature : Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books
Mani, B. Venkat
Recoding World Literature : Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books - Fordham University Press 2016
Open Access
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," 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. 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.
Creative Commons
English
oapen_626400
10.26530/oapen_626400 doi
Literature & literary studies
Literature Germany Johann Wolfgang von Goethe World literature
Recoding World Literature : Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books - Fordham University Press 2016
Open Access
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," 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. 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.
Creative Commons
English
oapen_626400
10.26530/oapen_626400 doi
Literature & literary studies
Literature Germany Johann Wolfgang von Goethe World literature