How Literatures Begin: A Global History | Joel B. Lande, Denis Feeney

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A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern times.Literature is such a familiar and widespread form of imaginative expression today that its existence can seem inevitable. But in fact very few languages ever developed the full-fledged literary cultures we take for granted. Challenging basic assumptions about literatures by uncovering both the distinct and common factors that led to their improbable invention, How Literatures Begin is a global, comparative history of literary…