A Concise Companion to World Literature
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A Concise Companion to World Literature

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A Concise Companion to World Literature

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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:

  • Features an entirely new introductory section that offers contemporary perspectives on World Literature
  • Showcases a diverse array of global texts, authors, and traditions to deliver a broad and inclusive literary perspective
  • Addresses key debates in World Literature, including periodization, cross-cultural exchange, and literary historiography
  • Includes a new pedagogical supplement to assist instructors in course design and aid students in literary analysis

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Notes on Contributors
  6. General Introduction: Changing the Way World Literature Is Taught
  7. Teaching and Reading World Literature
  8. CHAPTER 1: Introduction to World Literature Third Millennium BCE to 1500 CE
  9. CHAPTER 2: Bridge Essay: Origins and Transformations – Tactics of Storying and World‐Making
  10. CHAPTER 3: Should World Literature Replace the Bible?
  11. CHAPTER 4: The Invisible World of the Rigveda
  12. CHAPTER 5: Echoes of the Classics in the Voice of Confucius
  13. CHAPTER 6: Teachings of the Venerable Masters: Laozi and the Daode Jing
  14. CHAPTER 7: The QurÊŸan (Koran): Creating Community
  15. CHAPTER 8: The Popol Wuj: A Colonial Context
  16. CHAPTER 9: Bridge Essay: Looking for Love, Finding Trouble – Reading Ancient World Literature, Passionately
  17. CHAPTER 10: Sappho(s)
  18. CHAPTER 11: The Cultural Role of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in China and Beyond
  19. CHAPTER 12: Love, Politics, and the Premodern Theater
  20. CHAPTER 13: “Southeast Fly the Peacocks”: An Elegy for Love from the Six Dynasties Period in China
  21. CHAPTER 14: Ancient Greek Tragedy in World Literature
  22. CHAPTER 15: Augustine’s Confessions
  23. CHAPTER 16: Tang Poetry: Illustrating Tensions in the Classical Tradition
  24. CHAPTER 17: Qasida Poetry:
  25. CHAPTER 18: Longing for Love
  26. CHAPTER 19: Bridge Essay
  27. CHAPTER 20: Gilgamesh
  28. CHAPTER 21: The First Poem
  29. CHAPTER 22: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
  30. CHAPTER 23: Vergil’s Aeneid
  31. CHAPTER 24: The Secular Wisdom of Kalila and Dimna
  32. CHAPTER 25: The Tale of the Heike
  33. CHAPTER 26: The Glory and the End of the Heroic World in the Nibelungenlied
  34. CHAPTER 27: The Heroic Paradigm in The Epic of the Cid
  35. CHAPTER 28: The Knight‐Errant and the Good Fellow in Chinese Narrative
  36. CHAPTER 29: The Kebra Nagast
  37. CHAPTER 30: The Sundiata Epic and the Global Literary Imaginary
  38. CHAPTER 31: The Arab Oral Epic of the Bani Hilal Tribe: Al‐Sirah al‐Hilaliyyah
  39. CHAPTER 32: Bridge Essay: Gender and Representation
  40. CHAPTER 33:The Tale of Genji
  41. CHAPTER 34: A Woman Flouts Expectations in the Literary World
  42. CHAPTER 35: Engaging the Other More Favorably in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival
  43. CHAPTER 36: Francesco Petrarch
  44. CHAPTER 37: Mirabai’s Poetry
  45. CHAPTER 38: Walls of Inclusivity
  46. CHAPTER 39: “He Has Come, Visible and Hidden”
  47. CHAPTER 40: Introduction to World Literature 1501–1800
  48. CHAPTER 41: Bridge Essay
  49. CHAPTER 42: Rousseau and the Firmament of Modern Literature
  50. CHAPTER 43: Allegory and “World” Formation in The Journey to the West
  51. CHAPTER 44: William Shakespeare
  52. CHAPTER 45: Staging France’s Classical Theater World and Discovering Its Limits
  53. CHAPTER 46: Bridge Essay: The Novel
  54. CHAPTER 47:The 1001 Nights as World Literature
  55. CHAPTER 48: Lust and Love in English Translation
  56. CHAPTER 49: Don Quixote
  57. CHAPTER 50: A Lash for the World
  58. CHAPTER 51: Voltaire
  59. CHAPTER 52: Introduction to World Literature 1801–1900
  60. CHAPTER 53: Bridge Essay
  61. CHAPTER 54: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Inauguration of the Modern Indian Novel
  62. CHAPTER 55: From Delhi to Isfahan and Beyond
  63. CHAPTER 56: Rudyard Kipling
  64. CHAPTER 57: “But Women Feel Just as Men Do”
  65. CHAPTER 58: A Persisting Unease
  66. CHAPTER 59: Tagore at the Conjunction of World Literatures
  67. CHAPTER 60: Bridge Essay
  68. CHAPTER 61: Goethe’s World Literature Paradigm
  69. CHAPTER 62: The English Lake Poets of the World
  70. CHAPTER 63: Jane Austen on the Global Stage
  71. CHAPTER 64: Six Records of a Life Adrift
  72. CHAPTER 65: The Other Woman
  73. CHAPTER 66: Introduction to World Literature 1901 to the Present
  74. CHAPTER 67: Bridge Essay: From Decolonization to Decoloniality
  75. CHAPTER 68: “A Humanitarian Is Always a Hypocrite”
  76. CHAPTER 69: World Literature, World War
  77. CHAPTER 70:Indonesian Dissidence and Modern Narrative Form
  78. CHAPTER 71:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  79. CHAPTER 72: Between Realism and Modernism
  80. CHAPTER 73: NgĆ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o
  81. CHAPTER 74: Bridge Essay: The Moral Limits of Archive
  82. CHAPTER 75: Lu Xun’s Fictional Worlds
  83. CHAPTER 76: Marcel Proust
  84. CHAPTER 77: Franz Kafka
  85. CHAPTER 78: Thomas Mann
  86. CHAPTER 79: Virginia Woolf and the Rhythms of the Modern
  87. CHAPTER 80: Social Realism and Moral Affects
  88. CHAPTER 81: Kawabata Yasunari
  89. CHAPTER 82: Ernest Hemingway
  90. CHAPTER 83: William Faulkner and the World Literature Debate
  91. CHAPTER 84: Borges in the World, the World in Borges
  92. CHAPTER 85: Worlding Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing): Narratives of Frontiers and Crossings
  93. CHAPTER 86: Albert Camus
  94. CHAPTER 87: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
  95. CHAPTER 88: The Writer’s Passport
  96. CHAPTER 89: Gabriel GarcĂ­a MĂĄrquez and the Worlding of Latin American Literature
  97. CHAPTER 90: “Standing in a Doorway Looking”
  98. CHAPTER 91: Naguib Mahfouz and World Literature
  99. CHAPTER 92: Toni Morrison’s Fiction
  100. CHAPTER 93: Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum Family: World Literature as Incursion
  101. CHAPTER 94: Bridge Essay: The Learned Trowel
  102. CHAPTER 95: Opened Subjects, Opened Worlds
  103. CHAPTER 96: The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy and the “World” in “World Literature”
  104. CHAPTER 97: T. S. Eliot and Modernist Translation
  105. CHAPTER 98: Pablo Neruda
  106. CHAPTER 99: We Who Have Been Killed on Dark Paths
  107. CHAPTER 100: Fernando Pessoa, Singular Modernity, and World Literature
  108. CHAPTER 101: Bridge Essay: Modern Drama
  109. CHAPTER 102: How Bertolt Brecht Managed to Forge a Defamiliarized World Theater
  110. CHAPTER 103: Wole Soyinka
  111. CHAPTER 104: SaÊżdallah Wannous
  112. Index
  113. End User License Agreement