author: david damrosch

The Longman Anthology of World Literature: The 17th Century to Present Day

The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume II, offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 17th Century to present day.

Around the World in 80 Books

... novel's opening pages. First, Clarissa recalls 'the horror of the moment ... novel, and she read Sophocles and Euripides in Greek as she finished it. She also ... Dreadnought, anchored in Portsmouth (Figure 1). The visitors were welcomed ...

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

... mist which filled the void between heaven and earth . He seemed to see islands in lakes above the slopes of the mist ... heroes , and the cloud of dust from the ground and from the roads which rises above them driven by the wind so that ...

How to Read World Literature

... Third and Final Continent . A recurrent subject of discussion between the narrator and Mrs. Croft is the first American landing on the moon , which has recently taken place : " The astronauts had landed on the shores of the Sea of ...

World Literature in Theory

... World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and to How to Read World Literature (2009). He is the founding general editor of the six- volume Longman Anthology of World ...

Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age

... world built up by a novel, or staged by a playwright, or envisioned by a poet ... envisioned by the work. As Umberto Eco has said, “a work encloses us within ... Middle-earth can be compared to Sir Thomas More's pioneering alternative ...

Literature: A World History, Volumes 1-4

... Miré los muros de la patria mía , si un tiempo fuertes , ya desmoronados , de la carrera de la edad cansados , por quien caduca ya su valentía . Salíme al campo ; vi que el sol bebía los arroyos del yelo desatados , y del monte quejosos ...

What is World Literature?

... Gilgamesh epic can be seen as a document of a genuinely an- cient humanism , this humanism extends beyond humanity ... setting Gilgamesh in opposition to the gods , the epic stresses that he is actually two - thirds divine himself : his ...

The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Romantics and their contemporaries

... questions to put to you , Mr Worthing . While I am making these inquiries ... answers be what a really affectionate mother requires . Do you smoke ? JACK Well , yes , I must admit I smoke . LADY ... Importance of Being Earnest , Act 1 1891.

The Routledge Companion to World Literature

... Letras de D. Franscico Manuel de Melo, Paris: Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian ... Letras, São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1985; or The Lettered City, Durham, NC: Duke ... Angelus Novus. Thomsen, M.R.. (2008) Mapping World Literature: international ...

The Longman Anthology of World Literature

... exile , came as a shock to him . The complacent materialism of his ... world ; his scripts were considered too political and uncompromis- ing to please an ... illusion of reality but as a representation of events that is to be viewed ...

What Is World Literature?

Eloquently written, argued largely by example, and replete with insightful close readings, this book is both an essay in definition and a series of cautionary tales.

The Longman Anthology of World Literature

... Literature ( 1987 ) , Meetings of the Mind ( 2000 ) , and What Is World Literature ? ( 2003 ) . He has been pres- ident of the American Comparative Literature Association ( 2001-2003 ) and is general editor of The Longman Anthology ...

How to Read World Literature

How to Read World Literature addresses the unique challenges faced by a reader confronting foreign literature.

The Routledge Companion to World Literature

... Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume F, White Plains, NY: Longman. Faderman, L. (ed.) (1995) Chloe Plus Olivia: an anthology of lesbian literature from the 17th century to the present, New York: Penguin. Finney, G. (2006) ...

How to Read World Literature

... World Literature? Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Damrosch, David, ed. World Literature in Theory. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Damrosch, David et al., eds. The Longman Anthology of World Literature, 6 vols. New York: Pearson ...

Longman Anth of World Lit Vol C: Early Mod

Early Mod David Damrosch. Firdawsi and The Epic of Son - Jara 215 Turkish , Bosnian , Malay , Uzbek , and many others . The celebration of the sensu- ous in their tradition ... epic , he traveled widely Firdawsi and The Epic of Son-Jara.

Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age

... hell, from Hieronymus Bosch to Gustave Doré, that had inspired their ... Circles of Hell into the hottest game around. What should we make of this ... 9, 2010, though no longer visible). 6 Review by Sammycat, 2/9/2010, amazon.com/Dantes ...

Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age

... PS3.” Here, “the traditional gaming experience” means “two years ago,” and ... anime in recent decades, but Genji: Days of the Blade goes much further ... games studies.” He argues that “a close reading of a video game is not only ...

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