Literature (eBook, PDF)

A World History, Volumes 1-4
Redaktion: Damrosch, David; Trivedi, Harish; Khairallah, As'ad; Kadir, Djelal; Longxi, Zhang; Utas, Bo; D'Haen, Theo; Pettersson, Anders; Lindberg-Wada, Gunilla; Julien, Eileen

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Produktbeschreibung

LITERATURE A WORLD HISTORY An exploration of the history of the world's literatures and the many varieties of literary expression Literature: A World Historyencompasses all the world's major literary traditions, emphasizing the interrelationship of local and national cultures over time. Spanning global literature from the beginnings of recorded history to the present day, this expansive four-volume set examines the many varieties of the world's literatures in their social and intellectual contexts. Its four volumes are devoted to literature before 200 CE, from 200 to 1500, from 1500 to 1800, and from 1800 to 2000, with four dozen contributors providing new insights into the art of literature, and addressing the situation of literature in the world today. Organized throughout in six broad regions--Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, and West and Central Asia--Literature: A World History offers readers a clear and consistent treatment of diverse forms of literary expression across time and place. Throughout the text, particular emphasis is placed on literary institutions within different regional and linguistic cultures and on the relations between literature and a spectrum of social, political, and religious contexts. * Features work by an international panel of leading scholars from around the globe, in Africa, the Middle East, South and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, and the United States * Provides a balanced overview of national and global literature from all major regions of the world from antiquity to the present * Highlights the specificity of regional and local cultures throughout much of literary history, together with cross-cutting essays on topics such as different writing systems, court cultures, and utopias Literature: A World History is an invaluable reference work for undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars looking for a wide-ranging overview of global literary history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 1776
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119775751
• Artikelnr.: 64293111

Autorenporträt

General Editor David Damrosch, Harvard University Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, Stockholm University Volume Editor Anders Pettersson, Umeå University Regional Editors Africa: Eileen Julien, Indiana University Bloomington The Americas: Djelal Kadir, Pennsylvania State University East Asia: Zhang Longxi, City University of Hong Kong Europe: Anders Pettersson, Umeå University South and Southeast Asia and Oceania: Harish Trivedi, University of Delhi West and Central Asia: As¿ad E. Khairallah, The American University of Beirut

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

Full Table of Contents vii

Timeline xi

Contributors to Volume 1 lix

General Introduction: Literature, History, World lxiii

Anders Pettersson and David Damrosch, with the collective of editors

Reflections on the Idea of Literaturelxiii

About Literature: A World Historylxxviii

Introduction to Volume 1: The World before 200 ce 1

Anders Pettersson

1 East Asia7

Zhang Longxi, Bruce Fulton, and Gunilla Lindberg-Wada

Introduction: East Asia as a Region7

Chinese Literature9

Poetry in Pre-Qin China9

Prose Works in Pre-Qin China17

The Literature of the Han Dynasty20

The Literature of the Jian-an Period (196-220)27

2 South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania30

Harish Trivedi, Harry Aveling, Teri Yamada, and Susan Najita

Introduction30

South Asia31

The Vedas, Brahmanas, and Upanishads 31

The Great Epics44

Collections of Tales48

Early Tamil Literature54

Southeast Asia57

Oceania58

3 Worlds Apart: Comparing Literary Traditions before the Global Age62

Wiebke Denecke

4 West and Central Asia 79

As ad E. Khairallah, David Damrosch, and Bo Utas

Introduction79

The Ancient Near East82

The Invention of Writing82

What Was Literature?87

The First Patron of Literature95

The Bible as Literature? 98

Iran101

5 Africa107

Karin Barber, Biodun Jeyifo, Eileen Julien, and Steve Vinson

Introduction107

Ancient Egypt 108

Language, Script, and "Literature"108

Ancient Egyptian Genres110

Orality 123

6 Writing Systems and Cultural Memory128

David Damrosch

7 Europe141

Anders Pettersson

Introduction141

Ancient Greece146

Greek Epic and Lyric Poetry146

Classical Greek Drama 157

Classical Greek Prose167

Literature in Greek, 300 bce-200 ce 174

Ancient Rome180

Latin Literature before 100 bce 180

First-century bce Latin Poetry and Prose184

Latin Literature during the First Two Centuries ce 201

Writing, Reading, and Literary Thought in Greco-Roman Culture206

Concluding Remarks: Greco-Roman Literary Culture in a Wider Perspective209

8 The Americas214

Djelal Kadir, Quentin Youngberg, Albert Braz, and Donatella Izzo

9 Literatures before 200 ce: Concluding Remarks222

Anders Pettersson

Full Table of Contents

Volume 1: Before 200 ce

Timeline xi

Contributors to Volume 1 lix

General Introduction: Literature, History, World lxiii

Introduction to Volume 1: The World before 200 ce 1

1 East Asia 7

2 South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania30

3 Worlds Apart: Comparing Literary Traditions before the Global Age62

4 West and Central Asia 79

5 Africa 107

6 Writing Systems and Cultural Memory 128

7 Europe 141

8 The Americas 214

9 Literatures before 200 ce: Concluding Remarks222

VOLUME 2: 200-1500

Contributors to Volume 2 ix

Introduction to Volume 2: Peoples, Languages, and Literatures between 200 and 1500 ce 229

1 East Asia 235

2 Court Literature in East Asia and Europe 345

3 South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania 355

4 Animal Stories in South Asia and Europe 426