The written world: the power of stories to shape people, history, and civilization
"The story of literature in sixteen acts, from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to ebooks and Harry Potter, this engaging book brings together remarkable people and surprising events to show how writing shaped cultures, religions, and the history of the world"...
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CONTENTS
I N T R () D U C I ION: K A K I URIS K
M A P AN I) T I M I! L I N K () ! T II K
W K I T T K N W O R I, D xxiv
ALEXANDER S PILLOW BOOK 3
KINC OF THF UN1VKKSE: OF CILGAMESH
AND ASHURBANIPAL 2 4
FZ RA AND THE CREATION OF HOLY SCRIPTURE
4 6
LEARNING FROM THE BUDDHA, CONFUCIUS,
SOCRATES, AND JESUS 6 2
MURASAKI AND THE TALE OF GENJI:
THE FIRST GREAT NOVEL IN WORLD HISTORY
9 8
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS
WITH SCHEHERAZADE 1 2 1
GUTENBERG, LUTHER, AND THE
NEW PUBLIC OF PRINT 1 4 5
THE POPOL VUH AND MAYA CULTURE:
A SECOND, INDEPENDENT LITERARY
TRADITION i 7 1
DON QUIXOTE AND THE PIRATES
1 9 3
X
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 10 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: MEDIA ENTREPRENEUR
IN THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS 2 1 1
CHAPTER 11 WORLD LITERATURE: GOETHE IN SICILY
252
CHAPTER 12 MARX, ENGELS, LENIN, MAO: READERS OF
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, UNITE!
252
CHAPTER 13 AKHMATOVA AND SOLZHENITSYN:
WRITING AGAINST THE SOVIET STATE 2 7 3
CHAPTER 14 THE EPIC OF SUNJATA AND THE WORDSMITHS
OF WEST AFRICA 290
CHAPTER IS POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE:
DEREK WALCOTT, POET OF THE CARIBBEAN
306
CHAPTER 16 FROM HOGWARTS TO INDIA 326
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 339
NOTES 341
illustration credits 389
INDEX 393
A CONVERSATION WITH
MARTIN PUCHNER
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