• ISBN13: 9781405168267
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac
• Publication Date: October 24, 2008
• Pages: 152
• Original Price: USD 34.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 250 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Books & Reading

How to Read World Literature addresses the unique challenges faced by a reader confronting foreign literature. Accessible and enlightening, Damrosch offers readers the tools to navigate works as varied as Homer, Sophocles, Kalidasa, Du Fu, Dante, Murasaki, Moliere, Kafka, Soyinka, and Walcott.

• Offers a unique set of "modes of entry" for readers encountering foreign literature
• Provides readers with the tools to think creatively and systematically about key issues such as reading across time and cultures, reading translated works, and emerging global perspectives
• Covers a wide variety of genres, from lyric and epic poetry to drama and prose fiction and discusses how these forms have been used in different eras and cultures