Book 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
David Damrosch
is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia
University. Professor Damrosch's most recent publication is
What Is
World Literature?
(2003), but he is perhaps best known as the general editor of
The
Longman Anthology of British Literature
and of
The Longman Anthology of World Literature
(2004). From 2001 to 2003 he was President of the American Comparative
Literature Association.
