Martin Puchner

Written World (eBook, ePUB)

How Literature Shaped History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From clay tablets to the printing press.From the pencil to the internet.From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter.This is the true story of literature -- of how great texts and technologies have shaped cultures and civilizations and altered human history.The inventions of paper, the printing press and the world wide web are usually considered the major influences on the way we share stories. Less well known is the influence of Greek generals, Japanese court ladies, Spanish adventurers, Malian singers and American astronauts, and yet all of them played a crucial role in shaping and spreading literature as we know it today.The Written World tells the captivating story of the development of literature, where stories intersect with writing technologies like clay, stone, parchment, paper, printing presses and computers. Central to the development of religions, political movements and even nations, texts spread useful truths and frightening disinformation, and have the power to change lives. Through vivid storytelling and across a huge sweep of time, The Written World offers a new and enticing perspective on human history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Publications
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783783151
• Artikelnr.: 50004689

Autorenporträt

Martin Puchner holds the Byron and Anita Wien Chair in Drama, English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has published over a dozen books, collections, and anthologies, and is the general editor of the six volume Norton Anthology of World Literature, used by students worldwide. He has written for the London Review of Books, Raritan Review, Bookforum and N+1.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Earthrise 
                                                                                                           
Map and Timeline of the Written World         
                                                                        
 
Chapter 1: Alexander’s Pillow
Book                                                                                      
Chapter 2: King of the Universe: Of Gilgamesh and
Ashurbanipal                                        
Chapter 3: Ezra and the Creation of Holy
Scripture                                                                
Chapter 4: Learning from the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and
Jesus                                  
Chapter 5: Murasaki and The Tale of Genji: The First Great Novel in World
History            
Chapter 6: One Thousand and One Nights with
Scheherazade                                               
Chapter 7: Gutenberg, Luther, and the New Public of
Print                                                    
Chapter 8: The Popol Vuh and Maya Culture: A Second, Independent Literary
Tradition      
Chapter 9: Don Quixote and the
Pirates                                                                                  
Chapter 10: Benjamin Franklin: Media Entrepreneur in the Republic of
Letters         
Chapter 11: World Literature: Goethe in
Sicily                                                                       
Chapter 12: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao: Readers of The Communist Manifesto,
Unite!         
Chapter 13: Akhmatova and Solzhenitsyn: Writing Against the Soviet
State              
Chapter 14: The Epic of Sunjata and the Wordsmiths of West
Africa                         
Chapter 15: Postcolonial Literature: Derek Walcott, Poet of the
Caribbean                             
Chapter 16: From Hogwarts to
India                                                                                      
 
Acknowledgements                                                                                                                 
Notes                                                                                                                                       
Illustration
Credits                                                                                                      
            
Index