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082	0	4	_a809.935 0705 _bVEN/R
100	1		_aVenkat Mani B
245	1	0	_aRecoding world literature: _blibraries, print culture, and Germany's pact with books/ _cby Venkat Mani B
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York: _bFordham University press, _c2017.
300			_a348 pages : _billustrations, maps ;
520	8		_a"From 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. Mani 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. Shifting 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."--
650		0	_aBooks and Reading
650		0	_aLiterature Printing
650		7	_aLiterature World Publishing
650		7	_aLiterature
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