Anthology of world literature
The Norton Anthology of World Literature
Much of the European selection tended to get a bit overly concerned with morality for my taste, but I still found The Golden Ass and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to be excellent magical adventures. Christine de Pizan had some excellent early feminist writing, and Marco Polo was hilarious. Honestly, the things he claims to have seen...well I won't spoil it. But it wasn't nearly as serious as I expected.
While poetry is not usually a big interest for me, there was some lovely Sanskrit lyrics by Bhartrhari and Murari. Particularly Bhartrahari was honestly really
Compact Anthology of World Literature Parts 1, 2, and 3
A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western texts. The emphasis in this anthology, therefore, is on non-Western and European works, with only the British authors who were the most influential to European and non-Western authors (such as Shakespeare, whose works have influenced authors around the world to the present day). In a world literature class, there is no way that a student can be equally familiar with all of the societies, contexts, time periods, cultures, religions, and languages that they will encounter; even though the works presented here are translated, students will face issues such as unfamiliar names and parts of the story (such as puns) that may not translate well or at all. Since these stories are rooted in their cultures and time periods, it is necessary to know the basic context of each work to understand the expectations of the original audience.
The introductions in this anthology are meant to be just that: a basic overview of what students need to know before they begin reading, with topics that students can research furth
The Norton anthology of world literature
Description
- Responsibility
- Martin Puchner, general editor ; Suzanne Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily Wilson.
- Edition
- Fourth edition.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Creators/Contributors
- Contributor
- Puchner, Martin, 1969- editor.
- Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, editor.
- Denecke, Wiebke, editor.
- Fuchs, Barbara, 1970- editor.
- Levine, Caroline, 1970- editor.
- Lewis, Pericles, editor.
- Wilson, Emily R., 1971- editor.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Volume A. I. Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern literature. The fantastic hymn to the Aten
- The Babylonian creation epic (Enuma Elish)
- Hesiod from theogony and works and days
- Early Greek philosophy
- Lucretius, from On the Nature of Things
- Ancient Egyptian literature. The tale of Sinuhe
- Egyptian romance poems
- Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah (Setne 1)
- Stela of Taimhotep
- The epic of Gilgamesh
- The Hebrew Bible
- Homer
- Aesop
- Sappho
- Ancient Athenian drama. Agamemnon / Aeschylus
- Oedipus the king ; Antigone / Sophocles
- Medea / Euripides
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Martin Puchner (General Editor, Harvard University)
Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Editor, University of Toronto)
Wiebke Denecke (Editor, Boston University)
Vinay Dharwadker (Editor, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Barbara Fuchs (Editor, University of California-Los Angeles)
Caroline Levine (Editor, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Pericles Lewis (Editor, Yale University)
Emily Wilson (Editor, University of Pennsylvania)Led by Martin Puchner of Harvard University, the editors of the Fourth Edition (2018) are experienced classroom teachers as well as accomplished scholars. For help in selecting the best texts and translations and revising the editorial apparatus for the twenty-first-century classroom, the editors solicited the advice of more than 500 world literature instructors and expert counsel from a world-class team of regional specialists. The result is an anthology that a scholar can respect, that a teacher can assign with confidence, and that students can read and study with pleasure.
The Fourth Edition of the most trusted and widely used anthology of world literature retains and expands the most popular works from the last edition, while refreshing