David Damrosch: 3 books
The Buried Book
The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic—lost to the world for 2,000 years, and rediscovered in the nineteenth century
Composed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1200 bce, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed...
by David Damrosch
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
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...
by David Damrosch
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras. Fully revised to address important developments in World Literature, and generously expanded with new material, this...