World Literatures in Temporal Perspective
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In his article "World Literature vexed problem of how to shape a literary history in projecting old Western patterns onto new ages and distant areas of the world. This problem becomes acute when one seeks to create a genuinely global literary history. Damrosch surveys some early periodizations according to patterns of infancy, growth, maturity, and decline, and discusses the often unrealized persistence of biblical and classical models in modern accounts of the literary histories of Egypt, Mesoamerica, and India. > ISSN 1481-4374 Issue 5 (December 2013) Article 3 David Damrosch, Literatures in Temporal Perspective" b.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol15/iss5/3> 15.5 (2013) -first Century. Ed. > s in Temporal Perspective" David Damrosch to definable and meaningful periods without simply > ©Purdue University
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