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How to Read World Literature Paperback – 31 October 2008

by David Damrosch (Author)
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How to Read World Literature addresses the unique challenges faced by a reader confronting foreign literature. Accessible and enlightening, Damrosch offers readers the tools to navigate works as varied as Homer, Sophocles, Kalidasa, Du Fu, Dante, Murasaki, Moliere, Kafka, Soyinka, and Walcott.
  • Offers a unique set of "modes of entry? for readers encountering foreign literature
  • Provides readers with the tools to think creatively and systematically about key issues such as reading across time and cultures, reading translated works, and emerging global perspectives
  • Covers a wide variety of genres, from lyric and epic poetry to drama and prose fiction and discusses how these forms have been used in different eras and cultures
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  2. Language
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    John Wiley & Sons
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    31 October 2008
  5. Dimensions
    15.57 x 0.89 x 23.5 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1405168269
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1405168267
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David Damrosch is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Professor Damrosch's most recent publication is What Is World Literature? (2003), but he is perhaps best known as the general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature and of The Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004). From 2001 to 2003 he was President of the American Comparative Literature Association.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (31 October 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1405168269
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1405168267
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.57 x 0.89 x 23.5 cm
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David Damrosch was born in Maine and raised there and in New York. He studied at Yale, where he pursued interests in a wide range of ancient and modern languages and literatures. He then taught for three decades at Columbia before moving in 2009 to Harvard, where he chairs the Department of Comparative Literature. A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, he has written widely on comparative and world literature, and his work has been translated into an eclectic variety of languages, including Chinese, Estonian, Hungarian, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on 7 July 2017
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Thanks for helping me finish school!
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John H
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book for those wanting to read and appreciate World Literature
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2018
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Interesting read having completed the World literature course he jointly presents on Harvard edX with Martin Puchner.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre
Reviewed in the United States on 19 September 2012
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Domrosch surveys the territory, but he doesn't really have an idea uniting his book. I wasn't impressed. Yes, big schemes are reductive and always end up getting torn down, but this book is too close to an unstructured stream of details.
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2.0 out of 5 stars ugh
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I'm sorry, but this book is boring. The font was also tiny and that may have contributed to why it was so hard to read. I like to read, and I can enjoy a text book as much as a regular book, but this one did not appeal to me.
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