What is World Literature? (2003)

David Damrosch

Published:	2003, March 30
Authors:	David Damrosch
Publishers:	Princeton University Press
Pages:	344
Print type:	BOOK

Description:

INTRODUCTION: Goethe coins a phrase -- PART ONE: CIRCULATION -- Gilgamesh's quest -- The pope's blowgun -- From the old world to the whole world -- PART TWO: TRANSLATION -- Love in the necropolis -- The afterlife of Mechthild von Magdeburg -- Kafka comes home -- PART THREE: PRODUCTION -- English in the world -- Rigoberta Mench(c)ð in print -- The poisoned book -- CONCLUSION: World enough and time