Martin Puchner

The Written World

How Literature Shapes History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The true story of literature -- of how writing changed civilizations, cultures and the history of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Books
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781783783144
• ISBN-10: 1783783141
• Artikelnr.: 51348086

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