How Literatures Begin: A Global History
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How Literatures Begin: A Global History
By (Author) Joel B. Lande
Edited by Denis Feeney
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th September 2021
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Semiotics / semiology
Literature: history and criticism
809
Physical Properties
Hardback
448
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
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
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 beingand 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 *
Author Bio
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.
