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How Literatures Begin: A Global History
Among the many thousands of human languages, only a few develop into full-fledged literary cultures. In How Literatures Begin, Feeney and Lande compile a comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, and reveal what conditions gave rise to the literatures we study and cherish today.
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