A History of European Literature: The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present

by Walter Cohen

Book Overview

Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198732678
• ISBN13: 9780198732679
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 626 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"