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  • Around the World in 80 Books

    by David Damrosch ...
    A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them*Featured in the *Chicago Tribune'*s Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021*Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Buried Book

    The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

    by David Damrosch ...
    A "lively and accessible" history of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh, and its sensational rediscovery in the nineteenth century ( The Boston Sunday Globe).Composed in Middle Babylonia around 1200 BCE, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history: the Bible, Homer, The Thousand and One Nights. But in 600 BCE, the clay tablets that bore the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Comparing the Literatures

    Literary Studies in a Global Age

    by David Damrosch ...
    From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • World Literature in Theory

    Edited by David Damrosch ...
    World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literatureContains more than 30 important ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • How to Read World Literature

    by David Damrosch ...
    Series series How to Study Literature
    The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras. Fully revised to address important developments in World Literature, and generously expanded with new material, this second edition covers a wide variety of genres – from lyric and epic poetry to drama and prose ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to World Literature

    Edited by Theo D'haen, David Damrosch, Djelal Kadir ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    This fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains ten brand new chapters on topics such as premodern world literature, migration studies, world history, artificial intelligence, global Englishes, remediation, crime fiction, Lusophone literature, Middle Eastern literature, and oceanic studies.Separated into four key sections, the volume covers:the history of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Anatomy of Criticism

    Four Essays

    by Northrop Frye ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    A landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye seeks to describe a common basis for understanding the full range of literary forms by examining archetypes, genres, poetic language, and the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Meetings of the Mind

    by David Damrosch ...
    Comic in tone and serious in intent, this book gives a vivid portrait of academic life in the nineties. With campus populations and critical perspectives changing rapidly, academic debate needs to look beyond the old ideal of common purposes and communal agreement. How can we learn from people we won't end up agreeing with?This question is explored by four very different scholars, who meet and ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Crime Fiction as World Literature

    Edited by Dr. Louise Nilsson, Professor David Damrosch, Professor Theo D'haen ...
    Series series
    While crime fiction is one of the most widespread of all literary genres, this is the first book to treat it in its full global is the first book to treat crime fiction in its full global and plurilingual dimensions, taking the genre seriously as a participant in the international sphere of world literature. In a wide-ranging panorama of the genre, twenty critics discuss crime fiction from ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Giambatista Viko; or, The Rape of African Discourse

    An MLA Translation

    by Georges Ngal ...
    Translated by David Damrosch ...
    Series Book 39 - Texts and Translations
    Georges Ngal's pathbreaking satire Giambatista Viko explores the vexed relations between metropolitan centers and peripheral former colonies through its titular antihero, an African professor at an African studies institute divided between European-focused cosmopolitans and Africanists. Struggling to write the great African novel and subject to abuse, Viko realizes he can no longer separate the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Orhan Pamuk

    Edited by David Damrosch, Sevinç Türkkan ...
    Series Book 146 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006, Orhan Pamuk is Turkey's preeminent novelist and an internationally recognized figure of letters. Influenced by both Turkish and European literature, his works interrogate problems of modernity and of East and West in the Turkish context and incorporate the Ottoman legacy linguistically and thematically. The stylistic and thematic aspects of his ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature

    From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present

    Edited by David Damrosch, Natalie Melas, Mbongiseni Buthelezi ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Key essays on comparative literature from the eighteenth century to todayAs comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline's history and its present possibilities. The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature is a wide-ranging anthology of classic essays and important recent statements on the ... Read more

    $38.19 USD