Screen Library"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 compar...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Published: |
Penguin Press,
|
| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | |
| Summary: |
"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." -- |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 412 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes index and bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0593299884 |
| Index Number: | PN50 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Call Number: | I106/D166 |
| Contents: |
London : Inventing a City -- Paris : Writers' Paradise -- Krakow : After Auschwitz -- Venice-Florence : Invisible cities -- Cairo-Istanbul-Muscat : Stories within stories -- The Congo-Nigeria : (Post)Colonial encounters -- Israel/Palestine : Strangers in a strange land -- Tehran-Shiraz : A desertful of roses -- Calcutta/Kolkata : Rewriting empire -- Shanghai-Beijing : Journeys to the west -- Tokyo-Kyoto : The west of the east -- Brazil-Columbia : Utopias, dystopias, heterotopias -- Mexico-Guatemala : The Pope's blowgun -- The Antilles and beyond : Fragments of epic memory -- Bar Harbor : the world on a desert island -- New York : Migrant metropolis. London: Inventing a City : Mrs. Dalloway ; Great Expectations ; The Complete Sherlock Holmes ; Something Fresh ; Riceyman Steps -- Paris: Writers' Paradise : In Search of Lost Time ; Nightwood ; The Lover ; Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood -- Krakow: After Auschwitz : The Periodic Table ; The Metamorphosis and Other Stories ; Poems ; Selected and Last Poems, 1931-2004 ; Flights -- Venice-Florence: Invisible cities : The Travels ; The Divine Comedy ; The Decameron ; By Its Cover ; Invisible Cities -- Cairo-Istanbul-Muscat: Stories within stories : Love Songs of Ancient Egypt ; The Thousand and One Nights ; Arabian Nights and Days ; My Name is Red ; Celestial Bodies -- The Congo-Nigeria: (Post)Colonial encounters : Heart of Darkness ; Things Fall Apart ; Death and the King's Horseman ; Giambatista Viko, or The Rape of African Discourse ; The Thing Around Your Neck -- Israel/Palestine: Strangers in a strange land : The Hebrew Bible ; The New Testament ; The Missing File ; The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist ; The Butterfly's Burden -- Tehran-Shiraz: A desertful of roses : Persepolis ; The Conference of the Birds ; Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz ; A Desertful of Roses ; Call Me Ishmael Tonight -- Calcutta/Kolkata: Rewriting empire : Kim ; The Home and the World ; East, West ; The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes ; Interpreter of Maladies -- Shanghai-Beijing: Journeys to the west : Journey to the West ; The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Stories ; Love in a Fallen City ; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out ; The Rose of Time -- Tokyo-Kyoto: The west of the east : In the Shade of Spring Leaves ; The Tale of Genji ; The Narrow Road to the Deep North ; The Sea of Fertility ; "Prose of Departure" -- Brazil-Columbia: Utopias, dystopias, heterotopias : Utopia ; Candide, or Optimism ; Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas ; Family Ties ; One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Mexico-Guatemala: The Pope's blowgun : Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs ; Popl Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life ; Selected Works ; The President ; The Book of Lamentations -- The Antilles and beyond: Fragments of epic memory : Omeros ; Ulysses ; Wide Sargasso Sea ; The Penelopiad ; Atlas of Remote Islands -- Bar Harbor: the world on a desert island : One Morning in Maine ; The Country of the Pointed Firs ; Memoirs of Hadrian ; The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle ; Stuart Little -- New York: Migrant metropolis : A Wrinkle in Time ; The Labyrinth ; Notes of a Native Son ; Henderson the Rain King ; The Lord of the Rings. |