Pelican Books #: Around the World in 80 Books

Pelican Books #: Around the World in 80 Books
David Damrosch
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Hardback
h222 x 138mm - 512pg
4 Nov 2021 UK
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9780241501023
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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 themInspired by Jules Verne' s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard' 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 prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways 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 perennial problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat and 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 that of 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.

A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace
Architecture and Energy: From Pre-history to Climate Crisis
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency
Around the World in 80 Books
Blue Commons, The: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea
Can We Be Happier?: Evidence and Ethics
Covid By Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data
Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them
Feminisms: A Global History
Government of No One, The: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism
Holocaust, The: An Unfinished History
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth
Road to Conscious Machines, The: The Story of AI
This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright
What We Really Do All Day: Insights from the Centre for Time Use Research

It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all -- Orhan Pamuk Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading. With such a companion, you never know where you will go next, but you can be confident that the encounter will be memorable. Count me in! -- Stephen Greenblatt, author of TYRANT and THE SWERVE An insightful journey into the books that have for so long captivated us. Profound, boundless and diverse -- Jokha Alharthi, author of Celestial Bodies Pleasurable and full of insights, Around the World in 80 Books is such a joyful journey through the places, times and people who have made our world literature. Every time I finished a chapter I felt an urge to discover or re-read the books whose stories Damrosch is telling so vividly - but that meant putting down his own book and I wasn' t able do that. . . -- Dror Mishani, author of The Missing File and Three
David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard' s Institute for World Literature. He is the author or editor of twenty-five books, including What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book (2007), Comparing the Literatures (2020) and the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2008). He has lectured in fifty countries around the world, and his online Harvard course, Masterpieces of World Literature, has been taken by nearly 100,000 people.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241501023
Published: 4 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pelican
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 138mm
Spine: 40mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 512

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