TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mani,B.Venkat
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Recoding World Literature : : Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books / 
SN  - 9780823273430
AV  - PN3331 .M367 2017
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Book industries and trade
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index; Prologue -- Introduction : world literature as a pact with books -- 1. Of masters and masterpieces : an empire of books, a mythic European library -- 2. Half epic, half drastic : from a parliament of letters to a national library -- 3. The shadow of empty shelves : two world wars and the rise and fall of world literature -- 4. Windows on the Berlin Wall : unfinished histories of world literature in a divided Germany -- 5. Libraries without walls? World literature in the digital century -- Epilogue; Open Access
N2  - From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of "bibliomigrancy"--the physical and virtual movement of books--Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/48096/
ER  -