Full title: The world between two covers : reading the globe / Ann Morgan.

Author/creator: Morgan, Ann (Ann Beatrice).

Call Numbers: G 2015/2244

Record Identifier: 74VK73EE5QdM

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: 326 pages ; 25 cm., , , , Deciding to travel : the impulse to read the world -- Plotting the route : the global literature landscape -- Identifying landmarks : cultural identity and the problem of authenticity -- Following the trade routes : publishing around the world -- Venturing off the beaten track : writers commercial publishing doesn't reach -- Taking alternative modes of transport : oral narratives -- Encountering roadblocks : censorship, propaganda and exiled writers -- Broadening the mind : empathy and politics in literature -- Dealing with culture shock : when books and readers clash -- Finding myself : representations of the West in books around the world -- Crossing the language barrier : translation -- Surveying the road ahead : technology and the internet.

Publishers: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Notes: First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Harvill Secker under the title Reading the world: confessions of a literary explorer. Includes bibliographical references.

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DDC: 028.9

MMS ID: 991022811249702626