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Provides a student-friendly introduction to World Literature
Bridging the gap between introductory materials and advanced scholarly research, the Concise Companion to World Literature offers a streamlined selection of the most popular and essential essays from The Companion to World Literature, specifically tailored for undergraduate students and instructors. This single-volume resource, edited by Ken Seigneurie and Paula Karger, presents 100 carefully curated chapters, fully revised for clarity and accompanied by newly commissioned essays.
The Concise Companion, which retains the original work's three-tiered organizational structure-period essays, thematic bridge essays, and author-title chapters-offers a nuanced exploration of major literary traditions across time and geography. Each entry contextualizes major literary works within the broader framework of global literary traditions, enriching discussions on periodization, literary movements, and cross-cultural connections. With its accessible scholarship and enhanced learning tools, it is a vital resource for students beginning their journey in World Literature and for educators seeking a structured, easy-to-use reference.
Providing an engaging approach to the vast landscape of global literary traditions, the Concise Companion to World Literature:
The Concise Companion to World Literature, designed for second- and third-year undergraduate students, is an essential resource for courses in World Literature, Comparative Literature, and Humanities programs. It is also a valuable tool for graduate students and faculty seeking an authoritative and easy-to-use reference for teaching and research in the field.
KEN SEIGNEURIE is Professor of World Literature at Simon Fraser University. His research explores Arabic, French, and English literatures of the Levant with a focus on religious palimpsests in liberal cultures. He is the author of Standing by the Ruins: Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon and has published in numerous journals, including Middle Eastern Literatures, Comparative Literature Studies, Journal of Arabic Literature, Public Culture, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory.
PAULA KARGER is Assistant Professor in the Department of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research examines cultural exchange between Arabic, Spanish, and Yucatec Mayan cultural works in the medieval and colonial periods. She also studies the impact of experiential learning and global classrooms on the development of intercultural skills. She is the co-author of "Abiayala, Indigeneity, and Decolonial Teaching: Reflections from Turtle Island" (MLA Teaching Series).
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General Introduction: Changing the Way World Literature Is Taught 1Ken Seigneurie and Paula Karger
Teaching and Reading World Literature 7Paula Karger
Chapter 1 Introduction to World Literature Third Millennium BCE to 1500 ce 35Wiebke Denecke and Christine Chism
Chapter 2 Bridge Essay: Origins and Transformations - Tactics of Storying and World- Making 51Lowell Gallagher
Chapter 3 Should World Literature Replace the Bible? 59Ken Seigneurie
Chapter 4 The Invisible World of the Rigveda 67Caley Charles Smith
Chapter 5 Echoes of the Classics in the Voice of Confucius 75Mark Csikszentmihalyi
Chapter 6 Teachings of the Venerable Masters: Laozi and the Daode Jing 81 Louis Komjathy
Chapter 7 The Qur¿an (Koran): Creating Community 89Ali Altaf Mian and Terri DeYoung
Chapter 8 The Popol Wuj: A Colonial Context 97Néstor I. Quiroa
Chapter 9 Bridge Essay: Looking for Love, Finding Trouble - Reading Ancient World Literature, Passionately 105Sebastian Matzner
Chapter 10 Sappho(s) 113Page duBois
Chapter 11 The Cultural Role of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in China and Beyond 121Richard J. Smith
Chapter 12 Love, Politics, and the Premodern Theater: Perspectives on Kalidasa's Shakuntala 131Amanda Culp
Chapter 13 "Southeast Fly the Peacocks": An Elegy for Love from the Six Dynasties Period in China 137Qiulei Hu
Chapter 14 Ancient Greek Tragedy in World Literature 145Michael Ewans
Chapter 15 Augustine's Confessions: Beyond Esthetics, Ethics, and Cosmopolitanism 153Karla Pollmann
Chapter 16 Tang Poetry: Illustrating Tensions in the Classical Tradition 161Evan Nicoll- Johnson
Chapter 17 Qasida Poetry: A World unto Itself 167Adam Talib
Chapter 18 Longing for Love: The Romance of Layla and Majnun 175Ali- Asghar Seyed- Gohrab
Chapter 19 Bridge Essay: Superhuman Humans - Heroes and Heroines 183D. A. Miller
Chapter 20 Gilgamesh: A Cultural Seismograph 189Theodore Ziolkowski
Chapter 21 The First Poem: Valmiki's Ramayana and the Literary World of Southern Asia 197Robert P. Goldman
Chapter 22 Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Poems of Many Turnings 205Richard P. Martin
Chapter 23 Vergil's Aeneid: From Defeated Trojans to Imperial Romans 213Christine Perkell
Chapter 24 The Secular Wisdom of Kalila and Dimna 221Karla Mallette
Chapter 25 The Tale of the Heike: War Narrative and the Boundaries of Literature in Medieval and Modern Japan 227Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger
Chapter 26 The Glory and the End of the Heroic World in the Nibelungenlied 235 Albrecht Classen
Chapter 27 The Heroic Paradigm in The Epic of the Cid 241Michael Harney
Chapter 28 The Knight- Errant and the Good Fellow in Chinese Narrative: Water Margin and the Xia (Hero) Tradition 247Roland Altenburger
Chapter 29 The Kebra Nagast: An Israelite- Christian Dynastic and National Epic? 255Benjamin Hendrickx
Chapter 30 The Sundiata Epic and the Global Literary Imaginary 263James Tar Tsaaior
Chapter 31 The Arab Oral Epic of the Bani Hilal Tribe: Al- Sirah al- Hilaliyyah 271Susan Slyomovics
Chapter 32 Bridge Essay: Gender and Representation: New Approaches to Medieval Literature 279Rosemarie McGerr
Chapter 33 The Tale of Genji: Showing and Telling a World 285Edward Kamens
Chapter 34 A Woman Flouts Expectations in the Literary World: The Case of Li Qingzhao 293Ronald Egan
Chapter 35 Engaging the Other More Favorably in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival 301Evelyn Meyer
Chapter 36 Francesco Petrarch: A Poet of "Multiple Belongings" 309Jennifer Rushworth
Chapter 37 Mirabai's Poetry: The Worlding of a Hindu Woman Saint's Dynamic Song Tradition 317Nancy M. Martin
Chapter 38 Walls of Inclusivity: Dante's Divine Comedy and World Literature 325Akash Kumar
Chapter 39 "He Has Come, Visible and Hidden": Jalal al- Din Rumi's Poetic Presence and Past 331Matthew B. Lynch
Chapter 40 Introduction to World Literature 1501- 1800 339Christopher Lupke
Chapter 41 Bridge Essay: The Emergence of Modernity 347Eric Hayot
Chapter 42 Rousseau and the Firmament of Modern Literature 353Matthew W. Maguire
Chapter 43 Allegory and "World" Formation in The Journey to the West 359Ling Hon Lam
Chapter 44 William Shakespeare: Worlds Here, There, and Elsewhere 367Katherine Hennessey
Chapter 45 Staging France's Classical Theater World and Discovering Its Limits 375Michèle Longino
Chapter 46 Bridge Essay: The Novel: Or, the Power and Functions of Fictionality 383James Phelan
Chapter 47 The 1001 Nights as World Literature: Cultural Appropriation and Collaboration 391Paulo Lemos Horta
Chapter 48 Lust and Love in English Translation: Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone 399Andrew Schonebaum
Chapter 49 Don Quixote: A World of Idealism and Skepticism 405Bruce R. Burningham
Chapter 50 A Lash for the World: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels 411Ian Higgins
Chapter 51 Voltaire: The Orient of the Enlightenment 417Nicholas Cronk
Chapter 52 Introduction to World Literature 1801- 1900 425Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis
Chapter 53 Bridge Essay: Colonial Encounters in the Worlding of Literature 433Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis
Chapter 54 Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Inauguration of the Modern Indian Novel 441Rosinka Chaudhuri
Chapter 55 From Delhi to Isfahan and Beyond: Mirza Ghalib in World Literature 449Mehr Afshan Farooqi
Chapter 56 Rudyard Kipling: From Lahore to the World 457David Damrosch
Chapter 57 "But Women Feel Just as Men Do": Gender Rights in Nineteenth- Century World Literature 465Julia McCord Chavez
Chapter 58 A Persisting Unease: Joseph Conrad's (Post)Colonial Fictions 473Allan H. Simmons
Chapter 59 Tagore at the Conjunction of World Literatures 481Tania Roy
Chapter 60 Bridge Essay: Intimate Life and Romanticism 489Tim Mehigan
Chapter 61 Goethe's World Literature P aradigm: From Uneasy Cosmopolitanism to Literary Modernism 495John D. Pizer
Chapter 62 The English Lake Poets of the World 503Juan L. Sanchez
Chapter 63 Jane Austen on the Global Stage 511Susan Fraiman
Chapter 64 Six Records of a Life Adrift: A Unique Lyrical Memoir of Late Imperial China 519Graham Sanders
Chapter 65 The Other Woman: Mirza Hadi Ruswa's Umrao Jan Ada and the Politics of Domesticity in Nineteenth- Century India 527Maryam Wasif Khan
Chapter 66 Introduction to World Literature 1901 to the Present 533Mark Deggan
Chapter 67 Bridge Essay: From Decolonization to Decoloniality 543Amardeep Singh
Chapter 68 "A Humanitarian Is Always a Hypocrite": George Orwell, Englishness, and Empires 551Ben Clarke
Chapter 69 World Literature, World War: Revisiting Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North 559Shaden M. Tageldin
Chapter 70 Indonesian Dissidence and Modern Narrative Form: Pramoedya Ananta Toer 565Christopher GoGwilt
Chapter 71 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A Rebel in Literature 571Richard Tempest
Chapter 72 Between Realism and Modernism: Chinua Achebe and the Making of African Literature 577Simon Gikandi
Chapter 73 Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Networks, Literary Activism, and the Production of World Literature 585Kate Wallis
Chapter 74 Bridge Essay: The Moral Limits of Archive: Modern Narrative in World Literature 593Saikat Majumdar
Chapter 75 Lu Xun's Fictional Worlds 599Nicholas A. Kaldis
Chapter 76 Marcel Proust: The Plasticity of a Modernist Icon 605Vincent Ferré
Chapter 77 Franz Kafka: Modernism, Modernity, Myth, and Religion 611Manfred Engel
Chapter 78 Thomas Mann: National Monument and World Author 619David Horton
Chapter 79 Virginia Woolf and the Rhythms of the Modern 627Mark Deggan
Chapter 80 Social Realism and Moral Affects: The Worlds of Munshi Premchand 635Nikhil Govind
Chapter 81 Kawabata Yasunari: Modernism, Memory, and Desire 641Dennis Washburn
Chapter 82 Ernest Hemingway: Global American Modernist 647Lisa Tyler
Chapter 83 William Faulkner and the World Literature Debate: Is the "Radical" in "Radical Form" the "Radical" in "Radical Politics"? 655Hosam M. Aboul- Ela
Chapter 84 Borges in the World, the World in Borges 661Daniel Balderston
Chapter 85 Worlding Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing): Narratives of Frontiers and Crossings 669Nicole Huang
Chapter 86 Albert Camus: Still Challenging the Status Quo 675Toby Garfitt
Chapter 87 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: "To Become One, and Yet Many" 681Lena M. Hill
Chapter 88 The Writer's Passport: Vladimir Nabokov and World Literature 689Monica Manolescu
Chapter 89 Gabriel García Márquez and the Worlding of Latin American Literature 695Ilan Stavans
Chapter 90 "Standing in a Doorway Looking": Doris Lessing's Transnational Readings 701Alice Ridout
Chapter 91 Naguib Mahfouz and World Literature 709Karim Mattar
Chapter 92 Toni Morrison's Fiction: "Worlding" the Novel 717Tessa Roynon
Chapter 93 Mo Yan's Red Sorghum Family: World Literature as Incursion 725Christopher Lupke
Chapter 94 Bridge Essay: The Learned Trowel: Poetic Particularity in the Global Age 733Christopher Lupke
Chapter 95 Opened Subjects, Opened Worlds: Rainer Maria Rilke, Vulnerability, and World- Making 741Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
Chapter 96 The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy and the "World" in "World Literature" 749Mary N. Layoun
Chapter 97 T. S. Eliot and Modernist Translation 757John D. Morgenstern
Chapter 98 Pablo Neruda: World Literature and Human Rights 765Marcelo Pellegrini
Chapter 99 We Who Have Been Killed on Dark Paths: Faiz Ahmad Faiz's Internationalism and World Literature 771Gwendolyn S. Kirk
Chapter 100 Fernando Pessoa, Singular Modernity, and World Literature 779Paulo de Medeiros
Chapter 101 Bridge Essay: Modern Drama: A Multidimensional Live Form of World Literature 787Mary Luckhurst
Chapter 102 How Bertolt Brecht Managed to Forge a Defamiliarized World Theater 795Mary Luckhurst
Chapter 103 Wole Soyinka: Art, Politics, and the (African) World 801Taylor A. Eggan
Chapter 104 Sädallah Wannous: Syria's Premier Political Playwright and Social Critic 807Robert Myers
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Hosam M. Aboul-Ela is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston. He is the translator of three Arabic novels and the author of numerous critical articles in the areas of literature of the Americas, Latin American cultural studies, and Arab cultural studies. He is also the author of Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariátegui Tradition, and co-editor, with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, of the publication series Elsewhere Texts, published by Seagull Books, as well as the editor for Seagull Books' Arabic list.
Roland Altenburger is Professor of East Asian Cultural History at the Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg (Bavaria, Germany). He is the author of The Sword or the Needle: The Female Knight-errant (xia) in Traditional Chinese Narrative (Peter Lang, 2009) and co-editor of the volume Yangzhou, A Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Cultural History (University of Hawai'i Press, 2015).
Daniel Balderston is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh. He is co-director of the Borges Center and of its journal Variaciones Borges, the author of six monographs on Borges, and the editor of a dozen more. Recent publications include El método Borges (Ampersand, 2021) and Lo marginal es lo más bello (Eudeba, 2022). With Nora Benedict he co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges (2024), and with Alfredo Alonso Estenoz, Mariela Blanco, Emron Esplin, and María Celeste Martín, he edited a selection of Borges's notes for his talks and courses from 1949 to 1954, Cuadernos & Conferencias (2024).
Bruce R. Burningham is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Theatre at the Illinois State University, where he specializes in medieval and early modern Spanish and Latin American literature, Hispanic theater and film, and performance theory. His most recent book is an edited volume of essays titled Millennial Cervantes: New Currents in Cervantes Studies (University of Nebraska Press, 2020). He is also the author of Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage (Purdue University Press, 2007) and Tilting Cervantes: Baroque Reflections on Postmodern Culture (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008). He is editor of Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America.
Abigail E. Celis is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at the Université de Montréal, with a background in cultural studies. Her research focuses on the afterlives of colonialism and decolonial imaginaries as witnessed through contemporary visual culture, literary and artistic creation, and museum practices in the French-speaking world.
Rosinka Chaudhuri is Director and Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). She has held multiple visiting positions at educational institutions around the world. Her books include Gentlemen Poets in Colonial Bengal: Emergent Nationalism and the Orientalist Project (Seagull, 2002), Freedom and Beef-Steaks: Colonial Calcutta Culture (Orient Blackswan, 2012) and The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making of a Modern Cultural Sphere (Oxford University Press, 2013; Peter Lang, 2014). India's First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire (Penguin Random House India) is forthcoming. She has edited several books, with the most recent being the annotation and introduction of George Orwell's Burmese Days for Oxford World's Classics (2021). Her translation of Rabindranath Tagore's letters, titled Letters from a Young Poet (1887-94), was published as a Penguin Modern Classic in 2014 and received an Honorable Mention for the A.K. Ramanujan Prize for Translation at the Association for Asian Studies Book Prizes in 2016.
Julia McCord Chavez, PhD, JD, is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington. Her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, Victorian print culture, serialization, and gender studies. Chavez has published journal articles on the gothic elements in the works of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and the Gaskell Journal; on Julia Kavanagh and public opinion in Nineteenth Century Prose; and on the productive aspects of periodical reading in Victorian Periodicals Review. Her other scholarly projects include a pedagogy piece entitled Teaching Dickens by the Numbers: A Case Study of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, for Victorian Literature in the 21st Century: A Guide to Pedagogy, edited by Jen Cadwallader and Larry Mazzeno.
Christine Chism joined the faculty of UCLA in 2009, after holding positions at Rutgers University, and Allegheny College. Between 2003 and 2005, she was the recipient of a New Directions Mellon fellowship to learn Arabic and study Islamic culture. Since completing her first book on late medieval alliterative romance, she has been working on several projects. The first, Mortal Friends: The Politics of Friendship in Medieval England, explores the social force of friendship as it is tested in a range of late medieval texts, from romances, to court-poems, to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, to Robin Hood ballads. The second project, Strange Knowledge: Translation and Cultural Transmission in the Arabic and English Middle Ages, juxtaposes the great eighth- through tenth-century 'Abbasid translation movement of Greek, Byzantine, and Pahlavi texts into Arabic with the equally avid post-twelfth-century translation of Arabic texts into Latin and English.
Ben Clarke is Associate Professor of Post-1900 British and Anglophone Literature at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is author of Orwell in Context: Communities, Myths, Values (2007) and co-author, with Michael Bailey and John K. Walton, of Understanding Richard Hoggart: A Pedagogy of Hope (2011). He has published articles on authors including Jack Hilton, Virginia Woolf, Edward Upward and H. G. Wells, and subjects including public houses, mining communities, and Western representations of Taiwan.
Albrecht Classen received his PhD from the University of Virginia in 1986. He has a broad range of research interests, covering the history of German and European literature from about 800 to 1600. He has currently published 132 books and over 800 articles on comparative issues, gender topics, environmental concerns, and cultural historical themes. Most recently appeared Prostitution in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (2021), Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature (2021), Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World (2021), Wisdom from the European Middle Ages (2022), The Secret in Medieval Literature (2022), Globalism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age (ed., 2023), and Der Niederrheinische Orientbericht, c. 1350 (trans., 2024). A new book on court criticism and of evil kings in medieval literature appeared in 2024.
Nicholas Cronk is Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and Director of the Voltaire Foundation. He was the principal investigator of Electronic Enlightenment, a pioneering digital resource, and has been general editor of the Complete works of Voltaire since 2000. He has written widely on Voltaire and the French Enlightenment and edited a number of Voltaire's works. His most recent publications include Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2017), and Voltaire, Choix de lettres (Gallimard, 2017), an edition of correspondence.
Amanda Culp is a dramaturg and performance historian who specializes in the theatrical afterlives of Sanskrit drama. Her teaching and research interests include intercultural dramaturgy; translation and adaptation studies; South Asian theater and performance; decolonizing theater studies; performance theory; and the intersections of theater, ritual, and religion. Her writing on Sanskrit theater in performance has been published in Theatre Journal, Asian Theatre Journal, The Routledge Companion to Scenography, and in the volume Many Mahabharatas from SUNY Press. Amanda is a company member of One Year Lease Theater Company, for which she helps to facilitate and program an annual international artistic residency in Nagano, Japan, Karnataka, South India, and the Pindus Mountains of Northern Greece. She holds an MAR from Yale Divinity School, a PhD in Theater from Columbia University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Drama at Vassar College.
Mark Csikszentmihalyi is Eliaser Professor of International Studies and Professor of Chinese at University of California at Berkeley. He was recently elected editor of the journal Early China, and his most recent book is Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu, co-edited with Michael Nylan (2021).
David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His books include What Is World Literature? How to Read World Literature, The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, and Around the World in 80 Books. His edited works...
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