A Concise Companion to World Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Seigneurie, Ken; Karger, Paula

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 1451
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781394185276
• Artikelnr.: 75654044

Autorenporträt

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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Notes on Contributors xv General Introduction: Changing the Way World Literature Is Taught 1 Ken Seigneurie and Paula Karger Teaching and Reading World Literature 7 Paula Karger Chapter 1 Introduction to World Literature Third Millennium BCE to 1500 ce 35 Wiebke Denecke and Christine Chism Chapter 2 Bridge Essay: Origins and Transformations - Tactics of Storying and World- Making 51 Lowell Gallagher Chapter 3 Should World Literature Replace the Bible? 59 Ken Seigneurie Chapter 4 The Invisible World of the Rigveda 67 Caley Charles Smith Chapter 5 Echoes of the Classics in the Voice of Confucius 75 Mark Csikszentmihalyi Chapter 6 Teachings of the Venerable Masters: Laozi and the Daode Jing 81 Louis Komjathy Chapter 7 The Qur
an (Koran): Creating Community 89 Ali Altaf Mian and Terri DeYoung Chapter 8 The Popol Wuj: A Colonial Context 97 Néstor I. Quiroa Chapter 9 Bridge Essay: Looking for Love, Finding Trouble - Reading Ancient World Literature, Passionately 105 Sebastian Matzner Chapter 10 Sappho(s) 113 Page duBois Chapter 11 The Cultural Role of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in China and Beyond 121 Richard J. Smith Chapter 12 Love, Politics, and the Premodern Theater: Perspectives on Kalidasa's Shakuntala 131 Amanda Culp Chapter 13 "Southeast Fly the Peacocks": An Elegy for Love from the Six Dynasties Period in China 137 Qiulei Hu Chapter 14 Ancient Greek Tragedy in World Literature 145 Michael Ewans Chapter 15 Augustine's Confessions: Beyond Esthetics, Ethics, and Cosmopolitanism 153 Karla Pollmann Chapter 16 Tang Poetry: Illustrating Tensions in the Classical Tradition 161 Evan Nicoll- Johnson Chapter 17 Qasida Poetry: A World unto Itself 167 Adam Talib Chapter 18 Longing for Love: The Romance of Layla and Majnun 175 Ali- Asghar Seyed- Gohrab Chapter 19 Bridge Essay: Superhuman Humans - Heroes and Heroines 183 D. A. Miller Chapter 20 Gilgamesh: A Cultural Seismograph 189 Theodore Ziolkowski Chapter 21 The First Poem: Valmiki's Ramayana and the Literary World of Southern Asia 197 Robert P. Goldman Chapter 22 Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Poems of Many Turnings 205 Richard P. Martin Chapter 23 Vergil's Aeneid: From Defeated Trojans to Imperial Romans 213 Christine Perkell Chapter 24 The Secular Wisdom of Kalila and Dimna 221 Karla Mallette Chapter 25 The Tale of the Heike: War Narrative and the Boundaries of Literature in Medieval and Modern Japan 227 Vyjayanthi 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 241 Michael Harney Chapter 28 The Knight- Errant and the Good Fellow in Chinese Narrative: Water Margin and the Xia (Hero) Tradition 247 Roland Altenburger Chapter 29 The Kebra Nagast: An Israelite- Christian Dynastic and National Epic? 255 Benjamin Hendrickx Chapter 30 The Sundiata Epic and the Global Literary Imaginary 263 James Tar Tsaaior Chapter 31 The Arab Oral Epic of the Bani Hilal Tribe: Al- Sirah al- Hilaliyyah 271 Susan Slyomovics Chapter 32 Bridge Essay: Gender and Representation: New Approaches to Medieval Literature 279 Rosemarie McGerr Chapter 33 The Tale of Genji: Showing and Telling a World 285 Edward Kamens Chapter 34 A Woman Flouts Expectations in the Literary World: The Case of Li Qingzhao 293 Ronald Egan Chapter 35 Engaging the Other More Favorably in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival 301 Evelyn Meyer Chapter 36 Francesco Petrarch: A Poet of "Multiple Belongings" 309 Jennifer Rushworth Chapter 37 Mirabai's Poetry: The Worlding of a Hindu Woman Saint's Dynamic Song Tradition 317 Nancy M. Martin Chapter 38 Walls of Inclusivity: Dante's Divine Comedy and World Literature 325 Akash Kumar Chapter 39 "He Has Come, Visible and Hidden": Jalal al- Din Rumi's Poetic Presence and Past 331 Matthew B. Lynch Chapter 40 Introduction to World Literature 1501- 1800 339 Christopher Lupke Chapter 41 Bridge Essay: The Emergence of Modernity 347 Eric Hayot Chapter 42 Rousseau and the Firmament of Modern Literature 353 Matthew W. Maguire Chapter 43 Allegory and "World" Formation in The Journey to the West 359 Ling Hon Lam Chapter 44 William Shakespeare: Worlds Here, There, and Elsewhere 367 Katherine Hennessey Chapter 45 Staging France's Classical Theater World and Discovering Its Limits 375 Michèle Longino Chapter 46 Bridge Essay: The Novel: Or, the Power and Functions of Fictionality 383 James Phelan Chapter 47 The 1001 Nights as World Literature: Cultural Appropriation and Collaboration 391 Paulo Lemos Horta Chapter 48 Lust and Love in English Translation: Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone 399 Andrew Schonebaum Chapter 49 Don Quixote: A World of Idealism and Skepticism 405 Bruce R. Burningham Chapter 50 A Lash for the World: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels 411 Ian Higgins Chapter 51 Voltaire: The Orient of the Enlightenment 417 Nicholas Cronk Chapter 52 Introduction to World Literature 1801- 1900 425 Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis Chapter 53 Bridge Essay: Colonial Encounters in the Worlding of Literature 433 Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis Chapter 54 Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Inauguration of the Modern Indian Novel 441 Rosinka Chaudhuri Chapter 55 From Delhi to Isfahan and Beyond: Mirza Ghalib in World Literature 449 Mehr Afshan Farooqi Chapter 56 Rudyard Kipling: From Lahore to the World 457 David Damrosch Chapter 57 "But Women Feel Just as Men Do": Gender Rights in Nineteenth- Century World Literature 465 Julia McCord Chavez Chapter 58 A Persisting Unease: Joseph Conrad's (Post)Colonial Fictions 473 Allan H. Simmons Chapter 59 Tagore at the Conjunction of World Literatures 481 Tania Roy Chapter 60 Bridge Essay: Intimate Life and Romanticism 489 Tim Mehigan Chapter 61 Goethe's World Literature P aradigm: From Uneasy Cosmopolitanism to Literary Modernism 495 John D. Pizer Chapter 62 The English Lake Poets of the World 503 Juan L. Sanchez Chapter 63 Jane Austen on the Global Stage 511 Susan Fraiman Chapter 64 Six Records of a Life Adrift: A Unique Lyrical Memoir of Late Imperial China 519 Graham Sanders Chapter 65 The Other Woman: Mirza Hadi Ruswa's Umrao Jan Ada and the Politics of Domesticity in Nineteenth- Century India 527 Maryam Wasif Khan Chapter 66 Introduction to World Literature 1901 to the Present 533 Mark Deggan Chapter 67 Bridge Essay: From Decolonization to Decoloniality 543 Amardeep Singh Chapter 68 "A Humanitarian Is Always a Hypocrite": George Orwell, Englishness, and Empires 551 Ben Clarke Chapter 69 World Literature, World War: Revisiting Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North 559 Shaden M. Tageldin Chapter 70 Indonesian Dissidence and Modern Narrative Form: Pramoedya Ananta Toer 565 Christopher GoGwilt Chapter 71 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A Rebel in Literature 571 Richard Tempest Chapter 72 Between Realism and Modernism: Chinua Achebe and the Making of African Literature 577 Simon Gikandi Chapter 73 Ng
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wa Thiong'o: Networks, Literary Activism, and the Production of World Literature 585 Kate Wallis Chapter 74 Bridge Essay: The Moral Limits of Archive: Modern Narrative in World Literature 593 Saikat Majumdar Chapter 75 Lu Xun's Fictional Worlds 599 Nicholas A. Kaldis Chapter 76 Marcel Proust: The Plasticity of a Modernist Icon 605 Vincent Ferré Chapter 77 Franz Kafka: Modernism, Modernity, Myth, and Religion 611 Manfred Engel Chapter 78 Thomas Mann: National Monument and World Author 619 David Horton Chapter 79 Virginia Woolf and the Rhythms of the Modern 627 Mark Deggan Chapter 80 Social Realism and Moral Affects: The Worlds of Munshi Premchand 635 Nikhil Govind Chapter 81 Kawabata Yasunari: Modernism, Memory, and Desire 641 Dennis Washburn Chapter 82 Ernest Hemingway: Global American Modernist 647 Lisa Tyler Chapter 83 William Faulkner and the World Literature Debate: Is the "Radical" in "Radical Form" the "Radical" in "Radical Politics"? 655 Hosam M. Aboul- Ela Chapter 84 Borges in the World, the World in Borges 661 Daniel Balderston Chapter 85 Worlding Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing): Narratives of Frontiers and Crossings 669 Nicole Huang Chapter 86 Albert Camus: Still Challenging the Status Quo 675 Toby Garfitt Chapter 87 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: "To Become One, and Yet Many" 681 Lena M. Hill Chapter 88 The Writer's Passport: Vladimir Nabokov and World Literature 689 Monica Manolescu Chapter 89 Gabriel García Márquez and the Worlding of Latin American Literature 695 Ilan Stavans Chapter 90 "Standing in a Doorway Looking": Doris Lessing's Transnational Readings 701 Alice Ridout Chapter 91 Naguib Mahfouz and World Literature 709 Karim Mattar Chapter 92 Toni Morrison's Fiction: "Worlding" the Novel 717 Tessa Roynon Chapter 93 Mo Yan's Red Sorghum Family: World Literature as Incursion 725 Christopher Lupke Chapter 94 Bridge Essay: The Learned Trowel: Poetic Particularity in the Global Age 733 Christopher Lupke Chapter 95 Opened Subjects, Opened Worlds: Rainer Maria Rilke, Vulnerability, and World- Making 741 Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge Chapter 96 The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy and the "World" in "World Literature" 749 Mary N. Layoun Chapter 97 T. S. Eliot and Modernist Translation 757 John D. Morgenstern Chapter 98 Pablo Neruda: World Literature and Human Rights 765 Marcelo Pellegrini Chapter 99 We Who Have Been Killed on Dark Paths: Faiz Ahmad Faiz's Internationalism and World Literature 771 Gwendolyn S. Kirk Chapter 100 Fernando Pessoa, Singular Modernity, and World Literature 779 Paulo de Medeiros Chapter 101 Bridge Essay: Modern Drama: A Multidimensional Live Form of World Literature 787 Mary Luckhurst Chapter 102 How Bertolt Brecht Managed to Forge a Defamiliarized World Theater 795 Mary Luckhurst Chapter 103 Wole Soyinka: Art, Politics, and the (African) World 801 Taylor A. Eggan Chapter 104 Sädallah Wannous: Syria's Premier Political Playwright and Social Critic 807 Robert Myers Index 813