Download or read book What is World Literature? written by David Damrosch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTION: Goethe coins a phrase -- PART ONE: CIRCULATION -- Gilgamesh's quest -- The pope's blowgun -- From the old world to the whole world -- PART TWO: TRANSLATION -- Love in the necropolis -- The afterlife of Mechthild von Magdeburg -- Kafka comes home -- PART THREE: PRODUCTION -- English in the world -- Rigoberta Menchú in print -- The poisoned book -- CONCLUSION: World enough and time.