Around the world in 80 books / David Damrosch.
"A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize winners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan, and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle -- from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways." -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593299883
- ISBN: 0593299884
- Physical Description: xix, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Publishing Group, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
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Subject: | Literature. World history in literature. |
Genre: | Literary criticism. |
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- 9 of 9 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Abington Community Library | 809 DAMROSC (Text) | 50687011790394 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Cambria County Library | 809 D166a (Text) | 85131001886952 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | 809 Damrosch Bks Libs (Text) | 39427103623898 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
New Castle Public Library | 809 Damrosch (Text)
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In Memory of Lena Mastrangelo, given by The Kerr Agency, LLC.
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31902005451554 | NWCM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Trone Memorial Library (East Berlin) | 809 DAMROSCH (Text)
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In Memory of Command Sergeant Major William J. Mayer Named Endowment, 2021
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35740635796725 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem Main Library | 809 (Text) | 33062009528374 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | 028 D166a (Text) | 31901004554681 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Hughes Library | 809 DAM (Text) | 32378005100971 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Wayne County Public Library | 801.95 DAM (Text)
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