{"product_id":"9780823273409-recoding-world-literature","title":"Recoding World Literature","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLibraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books. From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, Recoding World Literature presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation on routes of Bibliomigrancy—physical and virtual movement of books--this book claims that world literature is culturally determined, historically conditioned, and politically charged. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of “bibliomigrancy”—the physical and virtual movement of books—Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. \u003cbr\u003eMani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation’s relationship with print culture—a Faustian pact with books. Moving from early Orientalist collections, to the Nazi magazine Weltliteratur, to the European Digital Library, Mani reveals the political foundations for a history of world literature that is at once a philosophical ideal, a process of exchange, a mode of reading, and a system of classification.\u003cbr\u003eShifting current scholarship’s focus from the academic to the general reader, from the university to the public sphere, Recoding World Literature argues that world literature is culturally determined, historically conditioned, and politically charged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40810231201889,"sku":"9780823273409","price":101.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/052d1fac3c4032d247c018ede7ad8a9c.png?v=1682674757","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780823273409-recoding-world-literature","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}