The Norton anthology of world literature / Martin Puchner, general editor ; Suzanne Akbari, Wiebke Denecke, Barbara Fuchs, Caroline Levine, Pericles Lewis, Emily Wilson.
Edition:
Fourth edition.
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
6 volumes, 48 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
from Encountering sorrow -- Creation and the cosmos ; The great 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 love poems -- The beginning of the song that diverts the heart ; Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah (Setne 1) ; Stela of Taimhotep -- The epic of Gilgamesh -- The Hebrew Bible ; Genesis ; Exodus ; from Job ; Psalm 8 ; Psalm 19 ; Psalm 23 ; Psalm 104 ; Psalm137 -- The Iliad ; The Odyssey / Zhuangzi. Fables / Aesop -- Sappho -- Ancient Athenian drama. Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- Oedipus the king ; Antigone / Sophocles -- Medea / Euripides -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- Symposium / Plato -- Travel and Conquest -- Poems / Catullus -- The Aeneid / Virgil -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- Speech, writing, and poetry -- Part 2. India's ancient epics and tales. The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki -- The Mahabharata -- The Bhagavad-Gītā -- The Jātaka -- Part 3. Early Chinese literature and thought. Classic of poetry -- from Analects / Confucius -- Daodejing / Laozi -- Songs of the South -- from The nine songs ; Encountering sorrow -- Zhuangzi. from The tales of the Heike. The Christian Bible : the New Testament Gospels -- The golden ass / Kamo No Chōmei -- Confessions / Augustine -- The Qur'an -- Beowulf -- Shahnameh (Book of Kings) / Abolqasem Ferdowsi -- from Song of Roland -- The scholar's guide / Petrus Alfonsi -- Lais ; Prologue ; Bisclavret ; Laüstic / Marie de France -- Medieval lyrics -- from The conference of the birds / Farid Ud-Din Attar -- from The masnavi / Jalal Ad-Din Muhammad Rumi -- from Canto 3 ; from The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri -- The glory of kings / Kebra Nagast -- The thousand and one nights -- from Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- from Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Sir Gawain and the green knight -- The book of the city of ladies / Christine de Pizan -- Travel and encounter -- Part 2. India's classic age. Pañcatantra / Viṣṇuśarman -- Classical tamil lyric -- Śakuntalā and the ring of recollection / Kālidāsa -- Classical Sanskrit lyric -- from Kathāsaristsāgara / Somadeva -- Part 3. Medieval China. Tao Qian -- Hanshan -- Tang poetry -- The story of Yingying / Yuan Zhen -- from Records on metal and stone ; Song lyrics / Li Qingzhao -- Part 4. Japan's classical age. The Man'yōshū (Collection of myriad leaves) -- Poetry of the Heian court -- from Tosa diary / Ki No Tsurayuki -- from The pillow book / Sei Shōnagon -- from The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu -- An account of a ten-foot-square hut / Kamo No Chōmei -- The tales of the Heike. Part 2. Paradise lost / Sunjata : a West African epic of the Mande peoples -- The book of Dede Korkut - The story of how Basat killed goggle-eye -- from The book of travels / John Milton. Indian poetry after Islam -- Part 2. Europe and the new world. Humanism and the rediscovery of the classical past -- Petrarch and the love lyric -- The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Orlando Furioso / Ludovico Ariosto -- Utopia / Thomas More -- The heptameron / Marguerite de Navarre -- The Abencerraje / Anonymous -- Essays / Michel de Montaigne -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes -- Popol Vuh -- The encounter of Europe and the new world -- Fuenteovejuna / Lope de Vega -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / William Shakespeare -- God, Church, and self -- Paradise lost / John Milton. from The world of haiku. Atsumori / Ihara Saikaku -- from The peach blossom fan / Kong Shangren -- from The love suicides at Amijima / Chikamatsu Monzaemon -- from The song of Ch'un-Hyang -- Part 2. The Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas. What is enlightenment? -- Tartuffe / Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) -- Oroonoko; or, The royal slave / Aphra Behn -- from Response of the poet to the very eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz ; Sonnets ; Redondilla ; Loa to the mystery play The divine narcissus: an allegory / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -- from Gulliver's travels ; A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- The rape of the lock ; An essay on man / Alexander Pope -- Candide, or Optimism / Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) -- Part 3. Literatures of early modern East Asia. from The journey to the West / Wu Cheng'en -- from The story of the stone / Cao Xueqin -- The tale of Hong Kiltong / Hŏ Kyun -- from The memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng ; from The memoir of 1795 ; from The memoir of 1805 / Lady Hyegyŏng -- from Life of a sensuous woman / Ihara Saikaku -- The world of haiku. Part 3. Orature. Revolutionary contexts -- Confessions / Higuchi Ichiyō -- from The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself / Olaudah Equiano -- Faust / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass -- Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- Romantic poets and their successors -- Part 2. At the crossroads of empire. from The tale of Kiêu / Nguyễn Du -- Ghalib -- from The travels of Lao Can / Liu E -- Married life ; Legal rights / Pandita Ramabai -- Letter to Major von Wissmann / Machemba -- from King Leopold's soliloquy / Mark Twain -- Poetry and politics -- Part 3. Realism across the world. Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- A simple heart / Gustave Flaubert -- The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- The cane / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis -- Unclaimed watch / José López Portillo y Rojas -- The cherry orchard ; The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov -- Punishment ; Kabuliwala / Rabindranath Tagore -- Separate ways / Higuchi Ichiyō -- Orature. From The headstrong historian / Heart of darkness / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Death in Venice / Thomas Mann -- Swann's way : Part 1. Combray / Marcel Proust -- The dead / James Joyce -- The metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Diary of a madman ; Ah Q - the real story / Lu Xun -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- In a bamboo grove / Akutagawa Ryūnosuke -- The dancing girl of Izu / Kawabata Yasunari -- From A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- Barn burning ; Spotted horses / William Faulkner -- Memoirs of a declining Ryukyuan woman ; In defense of "Memoirs of a declining Ryukyuan woman" / Kushi Fusako -- An old and established name / Lao She -- My innocent uncle / Ch'ae Man-Sik -- The garden of forking paths ; The library of Babel / Jorge Luis Borges -- The good woman of Setzuan / Bertolt Brecht -- Sealed off / Zhang Ailing -- Modern poetry -- Manifestos -- Part 2. Postwar and postcolonial literature, 1945-1968. House taken over / Julio Cortázar -- This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski -- Deathfugue ; Zurich, at the stork / Paul Celan -- The old chief Mshlanga / Doris Lessing -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- The guest / Albert Camus -- Endgame / Samuel Beckett -- The Vane sisters / Vladimir Nabokov -- The daydreams of a drunk woman / Clarice Lispector -- Chike's school days / Chinua Achebe -- Aura / Carlos Fuentes -- Matryona's home / Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- Zaabalawi / Naguib Mahfouz -- Part 3. Contemporary world literature. If I forget these thee, Jerusalem ; Sleep in Jerusalem ; God has pity on kindergarten children ; Jerusalem ; An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion / Yehuda Amichai -- As John to Patmos ; Ruins of a great house ; The almond trees ; Crusoe's journal ; Verandah ; Sea grapes ; The sea is history ; Omeros / Derek Walcott -- ; Digging ; The tollund man ; Punishment / Seamus Heaney -- Death constant beyond love / Gabriel García Márquez -- Two sisters / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Wedding at the cross / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- Death and the king's horseman / Wole Soyinka -- The deep river / Bessie Head -- In camera / Nawal el Saadawi -- The clever rain tree / Ōe Kenzaburō -- The perforated sheet / Salman Rushdie -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- From Mother's hitching post / Park Wansuh -- The women's swimming pool / Hanan Al-Shaykh -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- The old gun / Mo Yan -- On the road at eighteen / Yu Hua -- The general retires / Nguyen Huy Thiep -- And of clay are we created / Isabelle Allende -- Man of La Mancha / Chu T'ien-Hsin -- Drown / Junot Díaz -- Sensini / Roberto Bolaño -- To look out the window / Orhan Pamuk -- The headstrong historian / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Summary:
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 the anthology with new selections and translations of major works. As always, the Norton provides hundreds of literary selections, helpful apparatus, and beautiful illustrations. -- Provided by publisher.
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