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"How does globalism affect the books we read, and the way we read them? A leading scholar investigates." * New York Times Book Review *
"Few scholars active today can claim to have done as much as David Damrosch to shape the discipline of comparative literature in the United States. . . . Damrosch writes with great clarity and care, vividly bringing individual figures and their ideas to life. . . . [He] not only displays the breadth of his own personal canon, but also argues compellingly for the idea that our understanding of a given text is always enhanced by comparing it with other texts, whether or not the pairings are conventional or expected."---Alexander Beecroft, Modern Philology

Comparing the Literatures

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 7 April 2020
      ISBN-13 9780691134994
      978-0691134994
      ISBN-10 0691134995
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      Semiotics / semiology Literary studies: general Literary theory

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      Book Synopsis


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      "How does globalism affect the books we read, and the way we read them? A leading scholar investigates." * New York Times Book Review *
      "Few scholars active today can claim to have done as much as David Damrosch to shape the discipline of comparative literature in the United States. . . . Damrosch writes with great clarity and care, vividly bringing individual figures and their ideas to life. . . . [He] not only displays the breadth of his own personal canon, but also argues compellingly for the idea that our understanding of a given text is always enhanced by comparing it with other texts, whether or not the pairings are conventional or expected."---Alexander Beecroft, Modern Philology

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