How Literatures Begin

A Global History

Joel B. Lande, Denis Feeney

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Princeton University Press
20 July 2021

Literature: history & criticism

A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern times

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-fl

Edited by: Joel B. Lande, Denis Feeney
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780691186528
ISBN 10: 0691186529
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 20 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joel B. Lande is assistant professor of German at Princeton University and the author of Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature. Denis Feeney is the Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. His books include Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature.

Reviews for How Literatures Begin: A Global History

[What] is so wonderful about reading How Literatures Begin is the sense one comes away with, that it is somehow both inevitable and truly miraculous that any of these literatures should have come into being-and just how many more are out there for us readers to discover and explore in-depth. ---Jeffrey Zuckerman, World Literature Today