How to Read World Literature

by David Damrosch

Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 ISBN 9781405168267 pb, 140pp

GOOD used ex-library with usual stamps & markings minor wear

DESCRIPTION: 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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