世界文学の読み方 How to Read World Literature (How to Study Literature)

Damrosch, David

Blackwell Pub（2008/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 139 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781405168267
• DDC分類 809

基本説明

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.

Full 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

Contents

Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 1 What Is "Literature"? 6 2 Reading across Time 24 3 Reading across Cultures 46 4 Reading in Translation 65 5 Going Abroad 86 6 Going Global 105 Epilogue: Going Farther 125 Bibliography 130 Index 136