A Companion to World Literature

ISBN-13: 9781118993187 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 3808 str.

Ken Seigneurie

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Volume 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 Qur3/4an (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-Khansa3/4: 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 Kokinshu: 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 Basho 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 chOn) 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 Soseki: 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 Ngig) 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 Czesuaw Miuosz 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 Wisuawa 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 Index

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Ken Seigneurie is Professor of World Literature at Simon Fraser University. He has published works on modern Arabic, French and British fiction, literary theory, and the history of humanist thought. Wiebke Denecke is Professor of East Asian Literatures and Comparative Literature at Boston University. Her research interests include premodern literature and thought of the Sinographic Sphere (China, Japan, Korea), comparative studies of East Asia and the premodern world, world literature, and the politics of cultural heritage and memory. Ilaria L.E. Ramelli is Professor of Theology and K. Britt Chair in Christology at the Graduate School of Theology, SHMS (St. Thomas Aquinas University 'Angelicum'). She specializes in ancient, late antique, and early medieval philosophy and theology. Christine Chism is Professor of English at UCLA, 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 societies, and she teaches and publishes on the interconnections of premodern cultures, issues of race and gender, and the uses of literary history and fantasy. Christopher Lupke is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, and Chair of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. He specializes in the study of modern Chinese literature and cinema, with particular emphasis on Taiwan and Sinophone culture. Evan Nicoll-Johnson is an instructor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. He studies early medieval Chinese literature and culture, with research interests that include poetic and narrative literature of the Northern and Southern dynasties, and the history of books and bibliographic scholarship. Frieda Ekotto is Professor of Afro-American and African Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. As an intellectual historian and philosopher with areas of expertise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone and Francophone literature and in the cinema of West Africa and its diaspora, she concentrates on contemporary issues of law, race, and LGBTQI+ issues. Abigail E. Celis is an Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State University in the departments of French and Francophone Studies and African Studies. Her research and teaching center on race and gender in the creative and critical expression of the sub-Saharan African diaspora in France, spanning a range of primary sources that include visual art, literature, cinema, and museum practices. B. Venkat Mani is Professor of German and Director of the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research and teaching focus on nineteenth- to twenty-first-century German literature and culture, migrants and refugees in the German and European contexts, book and digital cultural histories, world literature, and theories of cosmopolitanism, globalization, postcolonialism, and transnationalism.