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Umfang: 1 online resource (432 p.) : , 10 color + 34 b/w illus. 2 maps.

ISBN: 9780691219844 , 9783110754001

Inhalt: A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern timesLiterature 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-fledged literary cultures we take for granted. Challenging basic assumptions about literatures by uncovering both the distinct and common factors that led to their improbable invention, How Literatures Begin is a global, comparative history of literary origins that spans the ancient and modern world and stretches from Asia and Europe to Africa and the Americas.The book brings together a group of leading literary historians to examine the practices, technologies, institutions, and individuals that created seventeen literary traditions: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Greek, Roman, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, English, German, Russian, Latin American, African, African American, and World Literature. In these accessible accounts, which are framed by general and section introductions and a conclusion by the editors, literatures emerge as complex weaves of phenomena, unique and deeply rooted in particular times and places but also displaying surprising similarities. Again and again, new literatures arise out of old, come into being through interactions across national and linguistic borders, take inspiration from translation and cultural cross-fertilization, and provide new ways for groups to imagine themselves in relation to their moment in history.Renewing our sense of wonder for the unlikely and strange thing we call literature, How Literatures Begin offers fresh opportunities for comparison between the individual traditions that make up the rich mosaic of the world's literatures.The book is organized in four sections, with seventeen literatures covered by individual contributors: Part I: East and South Asia: Chinese (Martin Kern), Japanese (Wiebke Denecke), Korean (Ksenia Chizhova), and Indian (Sheldon Pollock); Part II: The Mediterranean: Greek (Deborah Steiner), Roman (Joseph Farrell), Hebrew (Jacqueline Vayntraub), Syriac (Alberto Rigolio), and Arabic (Gregor Schoeller); Part III: European Vernaculars: Romance Languages (Simon Gaunt), English (Ingrid Nelson), German (Joel Lande), Russian (Michael Wachtel); Part IV: Modern Geographies: Latin American (Rolena Adorno), African (Simon Gikandi), African American (Douglas Jones), and World Literature (Jane O. Newman).

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , CONTRIBUTORS -- , INTRODUCTION -- , Part I. East and South Asia -- , Introduction -- , 1 Chinese -- , 2 Japanese -- , 3 Korean -- , 4 Indian -- , Part II. The Mediterranean -- , Introduction -- , 5 Greek -- , 6 Latin -- , 7 Hebrew -- , 8 Syriac -- , 9 Arabic -- , Part III. European Vernaculars -- , Introduction -- , 10 English -- , 11 Romance Languages -- , 12 German -- , 13 Russian -- , Part IV. Modern Geographies -- , Introduction -- , 14 Latin American -- , 15 African -- , 16 African American -- , 17 World Literature -- , Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780691219844

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Umfang: VI, 423 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9780691186528 , 0691186529 , 9780691186535 , 0691186537

Inhalt: "The emergence of a literature in any language is an improbable and complex historical achievement. In fact, many known languages throughout history did not develop writing, let alone a literature. This book, a collectively written early history of different literary traditions across the globe and through time, presents a global, comparative account of literary origins spanning the Mediterranean, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Seventeen chapters, each written by a scholar with expertise in a particular language and literature, trace the creation of writing and its interaction with oral practices, the rise of print circulation, the passage from sacred to secular writing and reading practices, the use of cultural models, the role of translation, and related issues as they apply to the emergence of literature. The contributions explore the historical context as well as the practices, technologies, and institutions that encouraged the emergence of distinct literatures, from classical Chinese and the resultant establishment of Japanese and Korean traditions, to the advent of Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and other literatures of the Mediterranean; the birth of European vernaculars against the cosmopolitan backdrop of post-classical Latin; and the later development of African American and Latin American literatures under conditions of colonial expansion and racial oppression. The volume is designed to enable readers to better understand the similarities as well as the differences in the origins of major and enduring literatures across time

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe How literatures begin ISBN 978-0-691-21984-4

Sprache: Englisch

Fachgebiete: Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen

Schlagwort(e): Weltliteratur ; Literatur ; Entstehung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Mehr zum Autor: Lande, Joel B.