Recoding World Literature —— Libraries, Print Culture, And Germany's Pact With Books

----- 记录世界文学：图书馆、印刷文化，与德国的协定书

ISBN: 9780823273409 出版年：2016 页码：361 B Venkat Mani Fordham University Press

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 narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. Shifting current scholarship's focus from the academic to the general reader, from the university to the public sphere, this book claims that world literature is culturally determined, historically conditioned, and politically charged. Mani argues that proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation's relationship with print culture, a faustian pact with books. With its turbulent historical and political transformations over the past two hundred years, germany serves as an excellent case study. Mani reframes the most well known statements on world literature from the german-speaking world--goethe, marx and engels, heine, hesse, auerbach--in two ways.