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The new Norton anthology — Volumes A through F — took about five years to assemble, edit, and expand, he said, and in its first year will be used by 50, American students. There are hundreds of new selections, along with new maps, illustrations, introductions, contextual essays, and translations.
For one startling example of newness, go to page of Vol. You will find a Robert Alter translation of Genesis, 25, illustrated by R. Crumb in graphic-novel style. The new volumes also feature clusters that explicate major themes common to all periods and places. The volumes also provide a ballast of cultural and literary context that is calming and guiding. To help even more, a Web site related to the book is being augmented this summer, and will include a pronunciation guide for seemingly exotic titles and authors.
The new volumes, with heavyweight covers and silky thin pages, are part of a big family of such anthologies conceived by W. Puchner will be the first to admit that the best way to experience world literature is by reading texts in the original language. But no one has mastered every language, or even many, and certainly not 2,year-old Mayan glyphs or the Sanskrit in Vedic hymns of 3, years ago. Yet anyone should be able to enjoy the stunning English approximations of experts, said Puchner.
Something like these words appeared first as Mayan glyphs nearly 2, years ago, but echo the biblical Genesis, first written in ancient Hebrew. Puchner is working on a book, due out in , on the world literature of travel. But translations remain an issue for critics of anthologies.
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