<p><b>A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern times</b><br><br>Literature is such a familiar and widespread form of imaginative expression today that its existence can seem inevitable. But in fact very few languages ever developed the full-fledged literary cultures we take for granted. Challenging basic assumptions about literatures by uncovering both the distinct and common factors that led to their improbable invention, <i>How Literatures Begin</i> is a global, comparative history of literary origins that spans the ancient and modern world and stretches from Asia and Europe to Africa and the Americas.<br><br>The book brings together a group of leading literary historians to examine the practices, technologies, institutions, and individuals that created seventeen literary traditions: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, English,
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For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been brought together to form a resounding - and distinctly Micronesian - voice. This long-awaited anthology...
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This volume demonstrates how the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) provides a necessary context for late-medieval literature. It shows how war impacted the lives and works of major writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Catherine of Siena,...
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<p><b>From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changes</b><br><br>Literary studies are being transformed today by the expansive...
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