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Book Synopsis2021 PROSE FinalistSingle and Multivolume Reference, & Textbooks in the HumanitiesA Companion to World Literature is a far-reaching and sustained study of key authors, texts, and topics from around the world and throughout history. Six comprehensive volumes present essays from over 300 prominent international scholars focusing on many aspects of this vast and burgeoning field of literature, from its ancient origins to the most modern narratives. Almost by definition, the texts of world literature are unfamiliar; they stretch our hermeneutic circles, thrust us before unfamiliar genres, modes, forms, and themes. They require a greater degree of attention and focus, and in turn engage our imagination in new ways. This Companion explores texts within their particular cultural context, as well as their ability to speak to readers in other contexts, demonstrating the ways in which world literature can challenge parochial world views by identifying cultural commonalities. Each unique vo
Table of ContentsVolume 1: Third Millenium bceto 600 ce
General Introduction: The Companion to World Literature … For Those Who Yearn
Ken Seigneurie
Introduction to World Literature: Third Millennium bce to 600 ce
Wiebke Denecke
1 Bridge Essay: The Ethical Turn
Luke Clossey
2 The Invisible World of the Rigveda
Caley Charles Smith
3 The Gathas, a Forgotten Masterpiece
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
4 "Transcending the World" in World Literature: The Upanishads
Steven E. Lindquist
5 The TaNaKH and the Canons of Alexandria
Armin Lange
6 Echoes of the Classics in the Voice of Confucius
Mark Csikszentmihalyi
7 Plato's Symposium: Eros, Beauty, and Metaphysical Desire
Andrea Nightingale
8 Aristotle's Virtue Ethics
John Bowin
9 The Gospel in Ancient Mediterranean Context
Alicia J. Batten
10 Bridge Essay: Origins and Transformations: Tactics of Storying and World-Making
Lowell Gallagher
11 The Cultural Role of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in China and Beyond
Richard J. Smith
12 Teachings of the Venerable Masters: Laozi and the Daode jing
Louis Komjathy
13 Hesiod's Theogony: From Family Violence to Civic Order
Stephen Scully
14 Herodotus and His Readers: From Thucydides to the Present
David Branscome
15 Ovid's Metamorphoses: Changing Worlds
Genevieve Liveley
16 Apuleius and The Golden Ass: Latin Novel, Universal Folktale, or Emblem of Globalized Literature?
Véronique Gély
17 Apocalyptic Literature in the Global Imagination
Lorenzo DiTommaso
18 Gnostic Myths
Mark Edwards
19 Bridge Essay: Shifting Paradigms in Orality, Literacy, and Literature
Elizabeth Minchin
20 The Septuagint as World Literature
Jan Joosten
21 Origen of Alexandria: Christian Philosophy of Freedom
Alfons Fürst
22 Making the Bible World Literature: The Vulgate and Ancient Versions
Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
23 Kumarajiva: "Great Man" and Cultural Event
Rafal Felbur
24 Contextualizing the Babylonian Talmud: The Roman East and Mesopotamian Christianity
Richard Kalmin
25 Bridge Essay: Superhuman Humans: Heroes and Heroines
D.A. Miller
26 Gilgamesh: A Cultural Seismograph
Theodore Ziolkowski
27 Sinuhe: A Fugitive from Ancient Egypt
Roland Enmarch
28 Mahabharata: Brahmins, Kings, and the South Asian Social World
Luther Obrock
29 The First Poem: Valmiki's Ramayana and the Literary World of Southern Asia
Robert P. Goldman
30 Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Poems of Many Turnings
Richard P. Martin
31 Aeschylus, Oresteia: Revenge, Justice, Gender, and Democracy
Alan H. Sommerstein
32 Sophocles: Greek Poet, World Classic
P.J. Finglass
33 Euripidean Tragedy: Between Myth and Individuation
Justina Gregory
34 Nine Songs, Li sao, and Qu Yuan: The Ancient Art of Misreading
Gopal Sukhu
35 Sima Qian and the "Creation" of China
Stephen Durrant
36 Vergil's Aeneid: From Defeated Trojans to Imperial Romans
Christine Perkell
37 Augustine's Confessions: Beyond Aesthetics, Ethics, and Cosmopolitanism
Karla Pollmann
38 Heliodorus' Aithiopika: The Birth of the Novel
David Konstan
39 Bridge Essay: From Epic to Lyric
David Konstan
40 The Making of a Chinese Critical System: Liu Xie's Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Wenxin diaolong)
Zong-qi Cai and Xiaohui Zhang
41 Renewal in and Through Landscape: The Great Medieval Chinese Poet Xie Lingyun
Meow Hui Goh
42 Sappho(s)
Page duBois
43 We Are the World: Subjectivity and Universality in the Odes of Horace
Randall L.B. McNeill
44 Tao Yuanming's Poetics of Awkwardness
Xiaofei Tian
45 Bridge Essay: The Cuneiform World: A Difficult Text Network
Mark Weeden
46 The Imperial Poetics of Ancient Bucolic
Jay Reed
47 The Panchatantra: World Literature Before "World Literature"
McComas Taylor
48 The Implied Listener: The Jatakas and Bardic World Literature
Sarah Shaw
49 Translations and Travels of a Pious Prince: Barlaam and Josaphat and the Text Network
Peggy McCracken
50 Bridge Essay: Looking for Love, Finding Trouble: Reading Ancient World Literature, Passionately
Sebastian Matzner
51 The Shijing: The Beginnings of Chinese (and East Asian) Poetry
Alexander Beecroft
52 Erotic Words, Sacred Landscapes, Ideal Bodies: Love and Death in the Song of Songs
Francis Landy
53 Image, Imagined, and Imagination in Silappadikaram
H. Kalpana Rao
54 The Erotic "World" of the Kamasutra
Daud Ali
55 Love, Politics, and the Premodern Theater: Perspectives on Kalidasa's Shakuntala
Amanda Culp
56 "Southeast Fly the Peacocks": An Elegy for Love from Early Medieval China
Qiulei Hu
Volume 2: 601 ceto 1450 ce
Introduction to World Literature: 601 ce to 1450 ce
Christine Chism
1 Bridge Essay: Vernacularization and World Literature: The Language of Women in the World of God
Martin Eisner
2 Qasida Poetry: A World unto Itself
Adam Talib
3 Táin Bó Cúailnge: Ireland's Vernacular Epic
Julie A. Le Blanc
4 Nizami's Resonances in Persianate Literary Cultures and Beyond
Sunil Sharma
5 Ma Zhiyuan Reworks Bai Juyi
Wilt L. Idema
6 Walls of Inclusivity: Dante's Divine Comedy and World Literature
Akash Kumar
7 The Global Pilgrimage of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Candace Barrington
8 Babri Mosque, Bollywood, and Gender: Ramcharitmanas as World Literature
Bhavya Tiwari
9 Bridge Essay: Wisdom and Mysticism: On Transcendence and Literariness
Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani
10 The Qurʾan (Koran)
Terri DeYoung and Ali Altaf Mian
11 Love and Reason in the Ghazal
Alireza Korangy
12 Hanshan and the Skillful Means of Buddhist Verse
Paul Rouzer
13 "I Sing as Love Commands the Tune!": The Devotional Poetry of Basavanna
Gil Ben-Herut
14 Mechthild von Magdeburg and the Mystical Poetry of The Flowing Light of the Godhead
Sara S. Poor
15 Kabbalah: A Vibrant Nexus Between Theology and Literature
Eitan P. Fishbane
16 Longing for Love: The Romance of Layla and Majnun
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
17 Ibn al-'Arabi, the Greatest Master: On Knowledge, God, and Sainthood
Mukhtar H. Ali
18 "He Has Come, Visible and Hidden": Jalal ad-Din Rumi's Poetic Presence and Past
Matthew B. Lynch
19 Meister Eckhart: From Latin Scholasticism to German Mysticism
Robert J. Dobie
20 Mirabai's Poetry: The Worlding of a Hindu Woman Saint's Dynamic Song Tradition
Nancy M. Martin
21 Bridge Essay: War and the Worlding of Story
Wen-chin Ouyang
22 The Arabic Alexander Romance: Mirror of a Bold, Clever, and Devout Prince
Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
23 The Poetry of Xin Qiji: Patriotism and Its Discontents
Zhiyi Yang
24 Troubadour Lyric in a Global Poetics: Creating Worlds Through Desire
Marisa Galvez
25 Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: A Complex Reshaping and Expansion of a Source
Evelyn Meyer
26 The Margins of Literary History: Sagas, Eddic Poetry, and World Literature
Sif Rikhardsdottir
27 The Tale of the Heike: War Narrative and the Boundaries of Literature in Medieval and Modern Japan
Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger
28 Bridge Essay: "Home" and "Abroad" in Medieval Travel and Trade Narratives
Shirin A. Khanmohamadi
29 Allegory and "World" Formation in The Journey to the West
Ling Hon Lam
30 Ibn Battuta: A Fourteenth-Century Muslim Traveler of Worldly Desire and Heavenly Hope
David Waines
31 Marco Polo and the World Empire of Letters
Sharon Kinoshita
32 Bridge Essay: Gender and Representation: New Approaches to Medieval Literature
Rosemarie McGerr
33 Al-Khansaʾ: Representing the First-Person Feminine
Marlé Hammond
34 The Tale of Genji: Showing and Telling a World
Edward Kamens
35 A Woman Flouts Expectations in the Literary World: The Case of Li Qingzhao
Ronald Egan
36 Francesco Petrarch: A Poet of "Multiple Belongings"
Jennifer Rushworth
37 Hafez of Shiraz, Constantinople, and Weltliteratur
Mir Shafiq Shamel
38 Christine de Pizan: A Literary Champion of Medieval Europe
Christine McWebb
39 Bridge Essay: Empire: A Roman Masterwork
Sarah M. Anderson
40 Abu Tammum and Abbasid Modernism
Huda J. Fakhreddine
41 The Popular Chinese Novel
Margaret B. Wan
42 Digenis Akritis and the Frontiers of Byzantium
Elizabeth Jeffreys
43 Bridge Essay: World Collecting: Patronage, Spoliation, and Forms of Government
Zrinka Stahuljak
44 Making It New in Tang Dynasty Poetry: Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu
Mary Anne Cartelli
45 The Secular Wisdom of Kalila and Dimna
Karla Mallette
46 Abu Nuwas: Poet of Wine, Desire, the Hunt, and the Abbasid Empire
Jocelyn Sharlet
47 Kokinshû: A Renaissance of Native Verse
Roger Thomas
48 Bridge Essay: Epic and Community: Heroism, Myth, and Memory Across Cultures
Anthony Welch
49 The Glory and the End of the Heroic World in the Nibelungenlied
Albrecht Classen
50 A Book of Kings as the King of Books: The Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
Franklin D. Lewis
51 Conquest and Crusade in The Epic of the Cid
Michael Harney
52 The Book of Dede Korkut and the Nomadology of World Literature
Firat Oruc
53 The Kebra Nagast:An Israelite–Christian Dynastic and National Epic?
Benjamin Hendrickx
54 The Sundiata Epic and the Global Literary Imaginary
James Tar Tsaaior
Volume 3: 1451 to 1770
Introduction to World Literature: 1451 to 1770
Christopher Lupke
1 Bridge Essay: European Religious Dissent and Conflict: Their Global Repercussions (1450–1770)
Brenda Deen Schildgen
2 The Philokalia: Corrugating the Texture of Christian-Inspired Literature
Kirill Dmitriev
3 The Popol Wuj: A Colonial Context
Néstor I. Quiroa
4 Kabir: Iconoclastic Mystic of India
Linda Hess
5 The Guru Granth Sahib as a World Literary Dialogue
Pashaura Singh
6 Martin Luther, Literature, and the Enlightenment
Brian Cummings
7 St. Teresa of Ávila: The Expression of Spanish Spirituality
Carole Slade
8 John Milton's Pervasive Presences
Neil Forsyth
9 Faith and Dissidence in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Dinorah Cortés-Vélez
10 Bridge Essay: The Emergence of Modernity
Eric Hayot
11 The Knight-Errant and the Good Fellow in Chinese Narrative: Water Margin and the Xia (Hero) Tradition
Roland Altenburger
12 Korean Sijo and Kasa as Boundary Objects
Wayne de Fremery
13 The Lusiads Affect: Standing in the Middle of the Sea
Vincent Barletta
14 A Model of Relational Individuality: Montaigne
George Hoffmann
15 Akbarnama: Persian Chronicle in World Literature
Meena Bhargava
16 Making Room for the Individual in Descartes' Discourse on the Method
Richard Davies
17 Matsuo Bashô Among the Mortals
Steven D. Carter
18 Samuel Richardson: Pamela and the Modern Individual
Mary Helen McMurran
19 Rousseau and the Firmament of Modern Literature
Matthew W. Maguire
20 Bridge Essay: Encyclopedism: Fire, Faith, and Future Learning
Seth Rudy
21 Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels: An Ottoman Experiment in Geographical Encyclopedism
Sooyong Kim
22 The Bad Travels of Diderot's Literature
Lorraine Piroux
23 Chinese Encyclopedism and the Power of Knowledge
Benjamin Elman
24 The Educational and Social Worlds of Premodern Arabic Encyclopedism
Kelly Tuttle
25 Bridge Essay: Fables and the Fantastic
Riccardo Capoferro
26 Mastering a Minor Tradition: Pu Songling and the Chinese Ghost Tale
Luo Hui
27 Jingu qiguan: Fantasizing the Absent in Ming Dynasty Vernacular Fiction
Xiaowen Xu
28 Jean de La Fontaine's Fables: Poetizing and Problematizing a Genre
Anne L. Birberick
29 Gothic Ghosts and Gothic Mirrors
John Whatley
30 Bridge Essay: "O Brave Monster! Lead the Way": Theatricality in Drama and Performance
Kyna Hamill and Margaret Litvin
31 Story of the Western Wing: The Pinnacle of Zaju
Stephen H. West
32 The Arab Oral Epic of the Bani Hilal Tribe: Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah
Susan Slyomovics
33 Locating Zeami Motokiyo in the History of Noh
Noel John Pinnington
34 Literati and Peddlers: The Commedia dell'Arte and the German Idea of Weltliteratur
Robert Henke
35 Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon (Sisheng yuan)
Shiamin Kwa
36 William Shakespeare: Worlds Here, There, and Elsewhere
Katherine Hennessey
37 The Alternative Genius of Lope de Vega
Jonathan Thacker
38 Staging France's Classical Theater World and Discovering Its Limits
Michèle Longino
39 Chikamatsu Monzaemon: Historical Drama and Love Suicide Plays
Satoko Shimazaki
40 Bridge Essay: Orientalia
Dominique Jullien
41 The 1001 Nights as World Literature: Cultural Appropriation and Collaboration
Paulo Lemos Horta
42 Journey of Knowledge in Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Bin Yaqzan
Mahmoud Nayef Baroud
43 The Orphan of Zhao on the World Stage
Shiamin Kwa
44 Genre and Geography in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
Jo Ann Cavallo
45 Indigeneity, Orality, and the New World from Montaigne to Lévi-Strauss
Madeleine Dobie
46 A Lash for the World: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Ian Higgins
47 Voltaire: The Orient of the Enlightenment
Nicholas Cronk
48 Bridge Essay: The Novel; Or, the Power and Functions of Fictionality
James Phelan
49 Lust and Love in English Translation: Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone
Andrew Schonebaum
50 Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Navel of a World
Marie-Luce Demonet
51 Cervantes: Don Quixote
Bruce R. Burningham
52 The Story of Hong Kiltong (Hong Kiltong chŏn) and Its Development into a Hybrid Text
Hyuk-chan Kwon
53 Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Ann Marie Fallon
Volume 4: 1771 to 1919
Introduction to World Literature: 1771 to 1919
Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis
1 Bridge Essay: Colonial Encounters in the Worlding of Literature
Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis
2 Colonial Education and Literary Self-Fashioning in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: The Career and Legacy of Michael Madhusudan Datta
Suddhaseel Sen
3 Philology Everywhere: World Literature and Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's Leg Over Leg
Jeffrey Sacks
4 Rudyard Kipling: From Lahore to the World
David Damrosch
5 A Persisting Unease: Joseph Conrad's (Post)Colonial Fictions
Allan H. Simmons
6 Gu Hongming's Journey from British Malaya, via Europe, to China and the Confucian Classics
Alison M. Groppe
7 Tagore at the Conjunction of World Literature
Tania Roy
8 Bridge Essay: Literary Translation in the Modern World
Melek Ortabasi
9 Edward FitzGerald's Translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Appeal of Terse Hedonism
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
10 Richard Burton: Foreignizing Literature
Paulo Lemos Horta
11 Lin Shu and the Routes of World Literature
Michael Gibbs Hill
12 Bridge Essay: The Nation: The Mighty Idea and the Novel
Nora E.H. Parr
13 Politics and Idiosyncrasies: The Global Parsing of Alexander Pushkin
Sara Dickinson
14 Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Inauguration of the Modern Indian Novel
Rosinka Chaudhuri
15 From Delhi to Isfahan and Beyond: Mirza Ghalib in World Literature
Mehr Afshan Farooqi
16 Jurji Zaydan: Avatar of the Modern Revitalization and Worlding of Arabic Literature
Kamran Rastegar
17 The Cultural Landscape of Colonial Korea's First Modern Novel, The Heartless (1917)
Ellie Choi
18 Bridge Essay: Intimate Life and Romanticism
Tim Mehigan
19 Goethe's World Literature Paradigm: From Uneasy Cosmopolitanism to Literary Modernism
John D. Pizer
20 The English Lake Poets of the World
Juan L. Sanchez
21 Jane Austen on the Global Stage
Susan Fraiman
22 Narrative and Genre: Locating Tanci in Chinese Literature and World Literature
Li Guo
23 Translating Content and Form from Vietnamese into World Literature: The Case of Kieu
K.W. Taylor
24 Victor Hugo's Romantic Registers
Kathryn M. Grossman
25 "If the World Be Looking On": Emily Dickinson Beyond Amherst
Woody Brown
26 Jorge Isaacs's Diasporic Novel: María Between National and World Literatures
Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
27 Walt Whitman "Over the Roofs of the World"
Delphine Rumeau
28 Six Records of a Life Adrift: A Unique Lyrical Memoir of Late Imperial China
Graham Sanders
29 Leo Tolstoy: Toward an Emotionally Infectious World Literature
John Burt Foster Jr.
30 The Other Woman: Mirza Hadi Rusva's Umrao Jan Ada and the Politics of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century India
Maryam Wasif Khan
31 Bridge Essay: Fairy-Tale Transformations
Francisco Vaz da Silva
32 Brothers Grimm: Oral-to-Literary Translation of Fairy Tales
Brandy E. Wilcox
33 Hans Christian Andersen: Literariness and the Circulatory System of World Literature
Julie K. Allen
34 The Boy Who Came from a Peach and the Girl with a Bowl on Her Head: The Many Faces of Japanese Fairy Tales
Laura K. Nüffer
35 Bridge Essay: Realism: Understanding the Real By Way of Unexpected Romance
Tiffany Bassett
36 Splendors and Miseries of Modernity: Honoré de Balzac
Michal P. Ginsburg
37 Material Inscriptions: Charles Baudelaire and the Poetry of the Modern World
Robert St. Clair
38 Charles Dickens: Transnational Responses and Cultural Imaginaries
Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee
39 George Eliot's Impact as Novelist and Critic on World Literature
John Rignall
40 Retrying Flaubert
Kathryn Oliver Mills
41 Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A "Novelist of Ideas" for the World
Alexander Burry
42 Between Ideas and Practices: Bharatendu Harishchandra and Modern Hindi in Colonial India
Francesca Orsini
43 Herman Melville and the "Harborless Immensities" of World Literature
Paul Lyons
44 Émile Zola: The Pursuit of "Truth"
Brian Nelson
45 Machado de Assis: Beyond Brazilian Imperatives
Paul Dixon
46 Natsume Sôseki: A Japanese Writer's Global Literary Community of Grief
Alan Tansman
47 Defying Borders: Anton Chekhov's Elusive Genius
Olga Tabachnikova
48 Henrik Ibsen: Critique from Within
Frode Helland
49 Resignation Open Eyed: On the Novel Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
Thomas Moran
50 Rubén Darío and the Nymph of France
Jorge Luis Castillo
51 Ahmad Shawqi: At the Threshold of World Literature
Yaseen Noorani
52 Bridge Essay: Inalienable: Human Rights and World Literature
Mark Deggan
53 Performing Narratives: Slave Narratives on the World Stage
Heidi Morse
54 "But Women Feel Just as Men Do": Gender Rights in Nineteenth-Century World Literature
Julia McCord Chavez
55 The "Dreaded Comparison" Revisited: Animal and Black Human Rights
Bénédicte Boisseron
Volume 5a: 1920 to Early Twenty-First Century I
Introduction to World Literature: 1920 to the Early Twenty-First Century
B. Venkat Mani
1 Bridge Essay: From Decolonization to Decoloniality
Amardeep Singh
2 José Martí: The World's Most Popular Poetry, and a Vision for the Americas
Anne Fountain
3 Frantz Fanon: Knowing in the First Person
Seloua Luste Boulbina
4 W.E.B. Du Bois, World Literature, and the Problem of Method
Ainsworth Clarke
5 The Dialectic of Individual and World System: Chen Yingzhen's Move from Existentialism to Marxism
Christopher Lupke
6 Mahmoud Darwish: A Plurality of Voices for Invoking the Other
Stephan Milich
7 World Literature, World War: Revisiting Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North
Shaden M. Tageldin
8 Indonesian Dissidence and Modern Narrative Form: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Christopher GoGwilt
9 V.S. Naipaul: Connecting His Past to Those of Other Postcolonial Peoples
Sanjay Krishnan
10 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Networks, Literary Activism, and the Production of World Literature
Kate Wallis
11 Between Realism and Modernism: Chinua Achebe and the Making of African Literature
Simon Gikandi
12 Bridge Essay: Home-Bodies: Exiles, Migration, and Diaspora in the World Literary Engagement
Abigail E. Celis
13 Pioneers! O Pioneers! Modern Arabic Literature in the USA
Alyn Hine
14 A Kind of Testament: Reading Witold Gombrowicz as a Transnational Writer
George Gasyna
15 Julio Cortázar: Between Aesthetics and Politics: The Travails of a Literary Traveler
Dan Russek
16 The Writer's Passport: Vladimir Nabokov and World Literature
Monica Manolescu
17 Abd al-Rahman Munif: Tracing Alternative Stories East of the Mediterranean
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
18 Worlding Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing): Narratives of Frontiers and Crossings
Nicole Huang
19 Language as Medium and as Fiction in Assia Djebar's work
Soraya Tlatli
20 Salman Rushdie and the World Picture of Islam
Debjani Ganguly
21 Kazuo Ishiguro's Thinking Novels
Chris Holmes
22 Bridge Essay: Literature and Liberalism: An Evolving Symbiosis
Ken Seigneurie
23 Thomas Mann: National Monument and World Author
David Horton
24 "A Humanitarian Is Always a Hypocrite": George Orwell, Englishness, and Empires
Ben Clarke
25 Kim Tong-in and the Liberal Self in Modern Korean Literature
Jae-Yon Lee
26 Living Like a Dervish: Sadegh Hedayat
Shen Yiming
27 Albert Camus: Still Challenging the Status Quo
Toby Garfitt
28 Anna Akhmatova, Cosmopolitanism, and World Literature
Alexandra Harrington
29 To the Frontier of the Mind: Shen Congwen and World Literature
Jiwei Xiao
30 Léopold Sédar Senghor or the Universal Concert
Nimrod
31 Czesùaw Miùosz in the World: The Will to Transcendence
Magdalena Kay
32 Naguib Mahfouz: A Liberal in a Conservative Society
Clara Srouji-Shajrawi
33 Bridge Essay: From Human Rights to Social Justice: Literature and the Struggle for a Better World
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
34 Lu Xun's Fictional Worlds
Nicholas A. Kaldis
35 Maxim Gorky: Living and Writing Protest
Dale E. Peterson
36 Transnational Voices of Resistance: Richard Wright and James Baldwin
Pekka A. Kilpeläinen
37 Pablo Neruda: World Literature and Human Rights
Marcelo Pellegrini
38 We Who Have Been Killed on Dark Paths: Faiz Ahmad Faiz's Internationalism and World Literature
Gwendolyn S. Kirk
39 Aimé Césaire in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Frieda Ekotto
40 Nadine Gordimer: Between South Africa and the World
Simon Lewis
41 Mulk Raj Anand's World Literature: Humanism, Crowds, Caste, and Modernism
J. Daniel Elam
42 Toni Morrison's Fiction: "Worlding" the Novel
Tessa Roynon
Volume 5b: 1920 to Early Twenty-First Century II
Introduction to World Literature: 1920 to the Early Twenty-First Century
B. Venkat Mani
1 Bridge Essay: The Moral Limits of Archive: Modern Narrative in World Literature
Saikat Majumdar
2 Marcel Proust: The Plasticity of a Modernist Icon
Vincent Ferré
3 Franz Kafka: Modernism, Modernity, Myth, and Religion
Manfred Engel
4 Social Realism and Moral Affects: The Worlds of Munshi Premchand
Nikhil Govind
5 James Joyce-ing World Literature
Eishiro Ito
6 "England's Most Precious Gift": Virginia Woolf's Transformations into Spanish
Laura María Lojo Rodríguez
7 Kawabata Yasunari: Modernism, Memory, and Desire
Dennis Washburn
8 Knut Hamsun: Modernity's Primal Birthing
Mark Deggan
9 Ernest Hemingway: Global American Modernist
Lisa Tyler
10 William Faulkner and the World Literature Debate: Is the Radical in Radical Form the Radical in Radical Politics?
Hosam M. Aboul-Ela
11 Miguel Angel Asturias and the Literature of the Indigenismo
René Prieto
12 Borges in the World, the World in Borges
Daniel Balderston
13 R.K. Narayan: The Elusive World of Malgudi
Nicholas Grene
14 Patrick White: Creating "a Race Possessed with Understanding"
Cynthia vanden Driesen
15 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: "To Become One, and Yet Many"
Lena M. Hill
16 "Standing in a Doorway Looking": Doris Lessing's Transnational Readings
Alice Ridout
17 Gabriel García Márquez and the Worlding of Latin American Literature
Ilan Stavans
18 Roberto Bolaño, Solar Anus of World Literature
Héctor Hoyos
19 Bridge Essay: Modern Poetry as a Global Phenomenon
Christopher Lupke
20 Opened Subjects, Opened Worlds: Rainer Maria Rilke, Vulnerability, and World-Making
Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
21 "It's Early to Rejoice": Vladimir Mayakovsky's Revolutions
James H. McGavran III
22 Reading Cavafy Writing: The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy and the "World" in "World Literature"
Mary N. Layoun
23 Fernando Pessoa, Singular Modernity, and World Literature
Paulo de Medeiros
24 Federico García Lorca: Mediating Tradition and Modernity for a World Audience
Roberta Ann Quance
25 Colonial Modernism and Inverted Subjectivity: The Paradoxes of the Mirror in the Writings of Yi Sang
Hyun Seon Park
26 T.S. Eliot and Modernist Translation
John D. Morgenstern
27 Wisùawa Szymborska and the Limits of World Literature
Clare Cavanagh
28 Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Madness
Leila Rahimi Bahmany
29 Bridge Essay: Modern Drama: A Multidimensional Live Form of World Literature
Mary Luckhurst
30 August Strindberg's Exilic Modernity
Eszter Szalczer
31 Yearning for the "West": Osanai Kaoru and the Concept of Stand-Alone Dramas in Modern Japan
Maki Isaka
32 How Bertolt Brecht Managed to Forge a Defamiliarized World Theater
Mary Luckhurst
33 Samuel Beckett and World Literature: Toward the Universal
Yoshiki Tajiri
34 "And I Have the Same Restlessness Today": Vijay Tendulkar's Connected Reading
Sai Bhatawadekar
35 Wole Soyinka: Art, Politics, and the (African) World
Taylor A. Eggan
36 Sa'dallah Wannous: Syria's Premier Political Playwright and Social Critic
Robert Myers
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