How Literatures Begin: A Global History
Hardback
Main Details
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How Literatures Begin: A Global History
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| Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Joel B. Lande
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Edited by Denis Feeney
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:448 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 156 |
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| Category/Genre | Literature - history and criticism
Literary theory
Literary studies - general |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691186535
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| Classifications | Dewey:809 |
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| Illustrations |
10 color + 34 b/w illus. 2 maps.
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
20 July 2021 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
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
Author Biography
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.
Reviews"[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 "Lande and Feeney's ambition for this handsome book is to provide a "global" survey of the origins of literatures. It succeeds in impressionistic, mosaic-like fashion." * Choice Reviews *
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