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.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.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.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.

• Volume 1: Third Millenium bceto 600 ceGeneral Introduction: The Companion to World Literature … For Those Who YearnKen SeigneurieIntroduction to World Literature: Third Millennium bce to 600 ceWiebke Denecke1 Bridge Essay: The Ethical TurnLuke Clossey2 The Invisible World of the RigvedaCaley Charles Smith3 The Gathas, a Forgotten MasterpieceProds Oktor Skjærvø4 "Transcending the World" in World Literature: The UpanishadsSteven E. Lindquist5 The TaNaKH and the Canons of AlexandriaArmin Lange6 Echoes of the Classics in the Voice of ConfuciusMark Csikszentmihalyi7 Plato's Symposium: Eros, Beauty, and Metaphysical DesireAndrea Nightingale8 Aristotle's Virtue EthicsJohn Bowin9 The Gospel in Ancient Mediterranean ContextAlicia J. Batten10 Bridge Essay: Origins and Transformations: Tactics of Storying and World-MakingLowell Gallagher11 The Cultural Role of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in China and BeyondRichard J. Smith12 Teachings of the Venerable Masters: Laozi and the Daode jingLouis Komjathy13 Hesiod's Theogony: From Family Violence to Civic OrderStephen Scully14 Herodotus and His Readers: From Thucydides to the PresentDavid Branscome15 Ovid's Metamorphoses: Changing WorldsGenevieve Liveley16 Apuleius and The Golden Ass: Latin Novel, Universal Folktale, or Emblem of Globalized Literature?Véronique Gély17 Apocalyptic Literature in the Global ImaginationLorenzo DiTommaso18 Gnostic MythsMark Edwards19 Bridge Essay: Shifting Paradigms in Orality, Literacy, and LiteratureElizabeth Minchin20 The Septuagint as World LiteratureJan Joosten21 Origen of Alexandria: Christian Philosophy of FreedomAlfons Fürst22 Making the Bible World Literature: The Vulgate and Ancient VersionsIlaria L.E. Ramelli23 Kumarajiva: "Great Man" and Cultural EventRafal Felbur24 Contextualizing the Babylonian Talmud: The Roman East and Mesopotamian ChristianityRichard Kalmin25 Bridge Essay: Superhuman Humans: Heroes and HeroinesD.A. Miller26 Gilgamesh: A Cultural SeismographTheodore Ziolkowski27 Sinuhe: A Fugitive from Ancient EgyptRoland Enmarch28 Mahabharata: Brahmins, Kings, and the South Asian Social WorldLuther Obrock29 The First Poem: Valmiki's Ramayana and the Literary World of Southern AsiaRobert P. Goldman30 Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Poems of Many TurningsRichard P. Martin31 Aeschylus, Oresteia: Revenge, Justice, Gender, and DemocracyAlan H. Sommerstein32 Sophocles: Greek Poet, World ClassicP.J. Finglass33 Euripidean Tragedy: Between Myth and IndividuationJustina Gregory34 Nine Songs, Li sao, and Qu Yuan: The Ancient Art of MisreadingGopal Sukhu35 Sima Qian and the "Creation" of ChinaStephen Durrant36 Vergil's Aeneid: From Defeated Trojans to Imperial RomansChristine Perkell37 Augustine's Confessions: Beyond Aesthetics, Ethics, and CosmopolitanismKarla Pollmann38 Heliodorus' Aithiopika: The Birth of the NovelDavid Konstan39 Bridge Essay: From Epic to LyricDavid Konstan40 The Making of a Chinese Critical System: Liu Xie's Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Wenxin diaolong)Zong-qi Cai and Xiaohui Zhang41 Renewal in and Through Landscape: The Great Medieval Chinese Poet Xie LingyunMeow Hui Goh42 Sappho(s)Page duBois43 We Are the World: Subjectivity and Universality in the Odes of HoraceRandall L.B. McNeill44 Tao Yuanming's Poetics of AwkwardnessXiaofei Tian45 Bridge Essay: The Cuneiform World: A Difficult Text NetworkMark Weeden46 The Imperial Poetics of Ancient BucolicJay Reed47 The Panchatantra: World Literature Before "World Literature"McComas Taylor48 The Implied Listener: The Jatakas and Bardic World LiteratureSarah Shaw49 Translations and Travels of a Pious Prince: Barlaam and Josaphat and the Text NetworkPeggy McCracken50 Bridge Essay: Looking for Love, Finding Trouble: Reading Ancient World Literature, PassionatelySebastian Matzner51 The Shijing: The Beginnings of Chinese (and East Asian) PoetryAlexander Beecroft52 Erotic Words, Sacred Landscapes, Ideal Bodies: Love and Death in the Song of SongsFrancis Landy53 Image, Imagined, and Imagination in SilappadikaramH. Kalpana Rao54 The Erotic "World" of the KamasutraDaud Ali55 Love, Politics, and the Premodern Theater: Perspectives on Kalidasa's ShakuntalaAmanda Culp56 "Southeast Fly the Peacocks": An Elegy for Love from Early Medieval ChinaQiulei HuVolume 2: 601 ceto 1450 ceIntroduction to World Literature: 601 ce to 1450 ceChristine Chism1 Bridge Essay: Vernacularization and World Literature: The Language of Women in the World of GodMartin Eisner2 Qasida Poetry: A World unto ItselfAdam Talib3 Táin Bó Cúailnge: Ireland's Vernacular EpicJulie A. Le Blanc4 Nizami's Resonances in Persianate Literary Cultures and BeyondSunil Sharma5 Ma Zhiyuan Reworks Bai JuyiWilt L. Idema6 Walls of Inclusivity: Dante's Divine Comedy and World LiteratureAkash Kumar7 The Global Pilgrimage of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury TalesCandace Barrington8 Babri Mosque, Bollywood, and Gender: Ramcharitmanas as World LiteratureBhavya Tiwari9 Bridge Essay: Wisdom and Mysticism: On Transcendence and LiterarinessAzadeh Yamini-Hamedani10 The Qurʾan (Koran)Terri DeYoung and Ali Altaf Mian11 Love and Reason in the GhazalAlireza Korangy12 Hanshan and the Skillful Means of Buddhist VersePaul Rouzer13 "I Sing as Love Commands the Tune!": The Devotional Poetry of BasavannaGil Ben-Herut14 Mechthild von Magdeburg and the Mystical Poetry of The Flowing Light of the GodheadSara S. Poor15 Kabbalah: A Vibrant Nexus Between Theology and LiteratureEitan P. Fishbane16 Longing for Love: The Romance of Layla and MajnunAsghar Seyed-Gohrab17 Ibn al-'Arabi, the Greatest Master: On Knowledge, God, and SainthoodMukhtar H. Ali18 "He Has Come, Visible and Hidden": Jalal ad-Din Rumi's Poetic Presence and PastMatthew B. Lynch19 Meister Eckhart: From Latin Scholasticism to German MysticismRobert J. Dobie20 Mirabai's Poetry: The Worlding of a Hindu Woman Saint's Dynamic Song TraditionNancy M. Martin21 Bridge Essay: War and the Worlding of StoryWen-chin Ouyang22 The Arabic Alexander Romance: Mirror of a Bold, Clever, and Devout PrinceFaustina Doufikar-Aerts23 The Poetry of Xin Qiji: Patriotism and Its DiscontentsZhiyi Yang24 Troubadour Lyric in a Global Poetics: Creating Worlds Through DesireMarisa Galvez25 Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: A Complex Reshaping and Expansion of a SourceEvelyn Meyer26 The Margins of Literary History: Sagas, Eddic Poetry, and World LiteratureSif Rikhardsdottir27 The Tale of the Heike: War Narrative and the Boundaries of Literature in Medieval and Modern JapanVyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger28 Bridge Essay: "Home" and "Abroad" in Medieval Travel and Trade NarrativesShirin A. Khanmohamadi29 Allegory and "World" Formation in The Journey to the WestLing Hon Lam30 Ibn Battuta: A Fourteenth-Century Muslim Traveler of Worldly Desire and Heavenly HopeDavid Waines31 Marco Polo and the World Empire of LettersSharon Kinoshita32 Bridge Essay: Gender and Representation: New Approaches to Medieval LiteratureRosemarie McGerr33 Al-Khansaʾ: Representing the First-Person FeminineMarlé Hammond34 The Tale of Genji: Showing and Telling a WorldEdward Kamens35 A Woman Flouts Expectations in the Literary World: The Case of Li QingzhaoRonald Egan36 Francesco Petrarch: A Poet of "Multiple Belongings"Jennifer Rushworth37 Hafez of Shiraz, Constantinople, and WeltliteraturMir Shafiq Shamel38 Christine de Pizan: A Literary Champion of Medieval EuropeChristine McWebb39 Bridge Essay: Empire: A Roman MasterworkSarah M. Anderson40 Abu Tammum and Abbasid ModernismHuda J. Fakhreddine41 The Popular Chinese NovelMargaret B. Wan42 Digenis Akritis and the Frontiers of ByzantiumElizabeth Jeffreys43 Bridge Essay: World Collecting: Patronage, Spoliation, and Forms of GovernmentZrinka Stahuljak44 Making It New in Tang Dynasty Poetry: Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du FuMary Anne Cartelli45 The Secular Wisdom of Kalila and Dimna Karla Mallette46 Abu Nuwas: Poet of Wine, Desire, the Hunt, and the Abbasid EmpireJocelyn Sharlet47 Kokinshû: A Renaissance of Native VerseRoger Thomas48 Bridge Essay: Epic and Community: Heroism, Myth, and Memory Across CulturesAnthony Welch49 The Glory and the End of the Heroic World in the NibelungenliedAlbrecht Classen50 A Book of Kings as the King of Books: The Shahnameh of FerdowsiFranklin D. Lewis51 Conquest and Crusade in The Epic of the Cid Michael Harney52 The Book of Dede Korkut and the Nomadology of World LiteratureFirat Oruc53 The Kebra Nagast:An Israelite–Christian Dynastic and National Epic?Benjamin Hendrickx54 The Sundiata Epic and the Global Literary ImaginaryJames Tar TsaaiorVolume 3: 1451 to 1770Introduction to World Literature: 1451 to 1770Christopher Lupke1 Bridge Essay: European Religious Dissent and Conflict: Their Global Repercussions (1450–1770)Brenda Deen Schildgen2 The Philokalia: Corrugating the Texture of Christian-Inspired LiteratureKirill Dmitriev3 The Popol Wuj: A Colonial ContextNéstor I. Quiroa4 Kabir: Iconoclastic Mystic of IndiaLinda Hess5 The Guru Granth Sahib as a World Literary DialoguePashaura Singh6 Martin Luther, Literature, and the EnlightenmentBrian Cummings7 St. Teresa of Ávila: The Expression of Spanish SpiritualityCarole Slade8 John Milton's Pervasive PresencesNeil Forsyth9 Faith and Dissidence in Sor Juana Inés de la CruzDinorah Cortés-Vélez10 Bridge Essay: The Emergence of ModernityEric Hayot11 The Knight-Errant and the Good Fellow in Chinese Narrative: Water Margin and the Xia (Hero) TraditionRoland Altenburger12 Korean Sijo and Kasa as Boundary ObjectsWayne de Fremery13 The Lusiads Affect: Standing in the Middle of the SeaVincent Barletta14 A Model of Relational Individuality: MontaigneGeorge Hoffmann15 Akbarnama: Persian Chronicle in World LiteratureMeena Bhargava16 Making Room for the Individual in Descartes' Discourse on the MethodRichard Davies17 Matsuo Bashô Among the MortalsSteven D. Carter18 Samuel Richardson: Pamela and the Modern IndividualMary Helen McMurran19 Rousseau and the Firmament of Modern LiteratureMatthew W. Maguire20 Bridge Essay: Encyclopedism: Fire, Faith, and Future LearningSeth Rudy21 Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels: An Ottoman Experiment in Geographical EncyclopedismSooyong Kim22 The Bad Travels of Diderot's LiteratureLorraine Piroux23 Chinese Encyclopedism and the Power of KnowledgeBenjamin Elman24 The Educational and Social Worlds of Premodern Arabic EncyclopedismKelly Tuttle25 Bridge Essay: Fables and the FantasticRiccardo Capoferro26 Mastering a Minor Tradition: Pu Songling and the Chinese Ghost TaleLuo Hui27 Jingu qiguan: Fantasizing the Absent in Ming Dynasty Vernacular FictionXiaowen Xu28 Jean de La Fontaine's Fables: Poetizing and Problematizing a GenreAnne L. Birberick29 Gothic Ghosts and Gothic MirrorsJohn Whatley30 Bridge Essay: "O Brave Monster! Lead the Way": Theatricality in Drama and PerformanceKyna Hamill and Margaret Litvin31 Story of the Western Wing: The Pinnacle of ZajuStephen H. West32 The Arab Oral Epic of the Bani Hilal Tribe: Al-Sirah al-HilaliyyahSusan Slyomovics33 Locating Zeami Motokiyo in the History of NohNoel John Pinnington34 Literati and Peddlers: The Commedia dell'Arte and the German Idea of WeltliteraturRobert Henke35 Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon (Sisheng yuan)Shiamin Kwa36 William Shakespeare: Worlds Here, There, and ElsewhereKatherine Hennessey37 The Alternative Genius of Lope de VegaJonathan Thacker38 Staging France's Classical Theater World and Discovering Its LimitsMichèle Longino39 Chikamatsu Monzaemon: Historical Drama and Love Suicide PlaysSatoko Shimazaki40 Bridge Essay: OrientaliaDominique Jullien41 The 1001 Nights as World Literature: Cultural Appropriation and CollaborationPaulo Lemos Horta42 Journey of Knowledge in Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Bin YaqzanMahmoud Nayef Baroud43 The Orphan of Zhao on the World StageShiamin Kwa44 Genre and Geography in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando FuriosoJo Ann Cavallo45 Indigeneity, Orality, and the New World from Montaigne to Lévi-StraussMadeleine Dobie46 A Lash for the World: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels Ian Higgins47 Voltaire: The Orient of the EnlightenmentNicholas Cronk48 Bridge Essay: The Novel; Or, the Power and Functions of FictionalityJames Phelan49 Lust and Love in English Translation: Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone Andrew Schonebaum50 Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Navel of a WorldMarie-Luce Demonet51 Cervantes: Don QuixoteBruce R. Burningham52 The Story of Hong Kiltong (Hong Kiltong chŏn) and Its Development into a Hybrid TextHyuk-chan Kwon53 Daniel Defoe: Robinson CrusoeAnn Marie FallonVolume 4: 1771 to 1919Introduction to World Literature: 1771 to 1919Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis1 Bridge Essay: Colonial Encounters in the Worlding of LiteratureFrieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis2 Colonial Education and Literary Self-Fashioning in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: The Career and Legacy of Michael Madhusudan DattaSuddhaseel Sen3 Philology Everywhere: World Literature and Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's Leg Over LegJeffrey Sacks4 Rudyard Kipling: From Lahore to the WorldDavid Damrosch5 A Persisting Unease: Joseph Conrad's (Post)Colonial FictionsAllan H. Simmons6 Gu Hongming's Journey from British Malaya, via Europe, to China and the Confucian ClassicsAlison M. Groppe7 Tagore at the Conjunction of World LiteratureTania Roy8 Bridge Essay: Literary Translation in the Modern WorldMelek Ortabasi9 Edward FitzGerald's Translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Appeal of Terse HedonismAsghar Seyed-Gohrab10 Richard Burton: Foreignizing LiteraturePaulo Lemos Horta11 Lin Shu and the Routes of World LiteratureMichael Gibbs Hill12 Bridge Essay: The Nation: The Mighty Idea and the NovelNora E.H. Parr13 Politics and Idiosyncrasies: The Global Parsing of Alexander PushkinSara Dickinson14 Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Inauguration of the Modern Indian NovelRosinka Chaudhuri15 From Delhi to Isfahan and Beyond: Mirza Ghalib in World LiteratureMehr Afshan Farooqi16 Jurji Zaydan: Avatar of the Modern Revitalization and Worlding of Arabic LiteratureKamran Rastegar17 The Cultural Landscape of Colonial Korea's First Modern Novel, The Heartless (1917)Ellie Choi18 Bridge Essay: Intimate Life and RomanticismTim Mehigan19 Goethe's World Literature Paradigm: From Uneasy Cosmopolitanism to Literary ModernismJohn D. Pizer20 The English Lake Poets of the WorldJuan L. Sanchez21 Jane Austen on the Global StageSusan Fraiman22 Narrative and Genre: Locating Tanci in Chinese Literature and World LiteratureLi Guo23 Translating Content and Form from Vietnamese into World Literature: The Case of KieuK.W. Taylor24 Victor Hugo's Romantic RegistersKathryn M. Grossman25 "If the World Be Looking On": Emily Dickinson Beyond AmherstWoody Brown26 Jorge Isaacs's Diasporic Novel: María Between National and World LiteraturesFelipe Martínez-Pinzón27 Walt Whitman "Over the Roofs of the World"Delphine Rumeau28 Six Records of a Life Adrift: A Unique Lyrical Memoir of Late Imperial ChinaGraham Sanders29 Leo Tolstoy: Toward an Emotionally Infectious World LiteratureJohn Burt Foster Jr.30 The Other Woman: Mirza Hadi Rusva's Umrao Jan Ada and the Politics of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century IndiaMaryam Wasif Khan31 Bridge Essay: Fairy-Tale TransformationsFrancisco Vaz da Silva32 Brothers Grimm: Oral-to-Literary Translation of Fairy TalesBrandy E. Wilcox33 Hans Christian Andersen: Literariness and the Circulatory System of World LiteratureJulie K. Allen34 The Boy Who Came from a Peach and the Girl with a Bowl on Her Head: The Many Faces of Japanese Fairy TalesLaura K. Nüffer35 Bridge Essay: Realism: Understanding the Real By Way of Unexpected RomanceTiffany Bassett36 Splendors and Miseries of Modernity: Honoré de BalzacMichal P. Ginsburg37 Material Inscriptions: Charles Baudelaire and the Poetry of the Modern WorldRobert St. Clair38 Charles Dickens: Transnational Responses and Cultural ImaginariesKlaudia Hiu Yen Lee39 George Eliot's Impact as Novelist and Critic on World LiteratureJohn Rignall40 Retrying FlaubertKathryn Oliver Mills41 Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A "Novelist of Ideas" for the WorldAlexander Burry42 Between Ideas and Practices: Bharatendu Harishchandra and Modern Hindi in Colonial IndiaFrancesca Orsini43 Herman Melville and the "Harborless Immensities" of World LiteraturePaul Lyons44 Émile Zola: The Pursuit of "Truth"Brian Nelson45 Machado de Assis: Beyond Brazilian ImperativesPaul Dixon46 Natsume Sôseki: A Japanese Writer's Global Literary Community of GriefAlan Tansman47 Defying Borders: Anton Chekhov's Elusive GeniusOlga Tabachnikova48 Henrik Ibsen: Critique from WithinFrode Helland49 Resignation Open Eyed: On the Novel Rickshaw Boy by Lao SheThomas Moran50 Rubén Darío and the Nymph of FranceJorge Luis Castillo51 Ahmad Shawqi: At the Threshold of World LiteratureYaseen Noorani52 Bridge Essay: Inalienable: Human Rights and World LiteratureMark Deggan53 Performing Narratives: Slave Narratives on the World StageHeidi Morse54 "But Women Feel Just as Men Do": Gender Rights in Nineteenth-Century World LiteratureJulia McCord Chavez55 The "Dreaded Comparison" Revisited: Animal and Black Human RightsBénédicte BoisseronVolume 5a: 1920 to Early Twenty-First Century IIntroduction to World Literature: 1920 to the Early Twenty-First CenturyB. Venkat Mani1 Bridge Essay: From Decolonization to DecolonialityAmardeep Singh2 José Martí: The World's Most Popular Poetry, and a Vision for the AmericasAnne Fountain3 Frantz Fanon: Knowing in the First PersonSeloua Luste Boulbina4 W.E.B. Du Bois, World Literature, and the Problem of MethodAinsworth Clarke5 The Dialectic of Individual and World System: Chen Yingzhen's Move from Existentialism to MarxismChristopher Lupke6 Mahmoud Darwish: A Plurality of Voices for Invoking the OtherStephan Milich7 World Literature, World War: Revisiting Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the NorthShaden M. Tageldin8 Indonesian Dissidence and Modern Narrative Form: Pramoedya Ananta ToerChristopher GoGwilt9 V.S. Naipaul: Connecting His Past to Those of Other Postcolonial PeoplesSanjay Krishnan10 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Networks, Literary Activism, and the Production of World LiteratureKate Wallis11 Between Realism and Modernism: Chinua Achebe and the Making of African LiteratureSimon Gikandi12 Bridge Essay: Home-Bodies: Exiles, Migration, and Diaspora in the World Literary EngagementAbigail E. Celis13 Pioneers! O Pioneers! Modern Arabic Literature in the USAAlyn Hine14 A Kind of Testament: Reading Witold Gombrowicz as a Transnational WriterGeorge Gasyna15 Julio Cortázar: Between Aesthetics and Politics: The Travails of a Literary TravelerDan Russek16 The Writer's Passport: Vladimir Nabokov and World LiteratureMonica Manolescu17 Abd al-Rahman Munif: Tracing Alternative Stories East of the MediterraneanSonja Mejcher-Atassi18 Worlding Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing): Narratives of Frontiers and CrossingsNicole Huang19 Language as Medium and as Fiction in Assia Djebar's workSoraya Tlatli20 Salman Rushdie and the World Picture of IslamDebjani Ganguly21 Kazuo Ishiguro's Thinking NovelsChris Holmes22 Bridge Essay: Literature and Liberalism: An Evolving SymbiosisKen Seigneurie23 Thomas Mann: National Monument and World AuthorDavid Horton24 "A Humanitarian Is Always a Hypocrite": George Orwell, Englishness, and EmpiresBen Clarke25 Kim Tong-in and the Liberal Self in Modern Korean LiteratureJae-Yon Lee26 Living Like a Dervish: Sadegh HedayatShen Yiming27 Albert Camus: Still Challenging the Status QuoToby Garfitt28 Anna Akhmatova, Cosmopolitanism, and World LiteratureAlexandra Harrington29 To the Frontier of the Mind: Shen Congwen and World LiteratureJiwei Xiao30 Léopold Sédar Senghor or the Universal ConcertNimrod31 Czesùaw Miùosz in the World: The Will to TranscendenceMagdalena Kay32 Naguib Mahfouz: A Liberal in a Conservative SocietyClara Srouji-Shajrawi33 Bridge Essay: From Human Rights to Social Justice: Literature and the Struggle for a Better WorldMarta Caminero-Santangelo34 Lu Xun's Fictional WorldsNicholas A. Kaldis35 Maxim Gorky: Living and Writing ProtestDale E. Peterson36 Transnational Voices of Resistance: Richard Wright and James BaldwinPekka A. Kilpeläinen37 Pablo Neruda: World Literature and Human RightsMarcelo Pellegrini38 We Who Have Been Killed on Dark Paths: Faiz Ahmad Faiz's Internationalism and World LiteratureGwendolyn S. Kirk39 Aimé Césaire in the Era of Black Lives MatterFrieda Ekotto40 Nadine Gordimer: Between South Africa and the WorldSimon Lewis41 Mulk Raj Anand's World Literature: Humanism, Crowds, Caste, and ModernismJ. Daniel Elam42 Toni Morrison's Fiction: "Worlding" the NovelTessa RoynonVolume 5b: 1920 to Early Twenty-First Century IIIntroduction to World Literature: 1920 to the Early Twenty-First CenturyB. Venkat Mani1 Bridge Essay: The Moral Limits of Archive: Modern Narrative in World LiteratureSaikat Majumdar2 Marcel Proust: The Plasticity of a Modernist IconVincent Ferré3 Franz Kafka: Modernism, Modernity, Myth, and ReligionManfred Engel4 Social Realism and Moral Affects: The Worlds of Munshi PremchandNikhil Govind5 James Joyce-ing World LiteratureEishiro Ito6 "England's Most Precious Gift": Virginia Woolf's Transformations into SpanishLaura María Lojo Rodríguez7 Kawabata Yasunari: Modernism, Memory, and DesireDennis Washburn8 Knut Hamsun: Modernity's Primal BirthingMark Deggan9 Ernest Hemingway: Global American ModernistLisa Tyler10 William Faulkner and the World Literature Debate: Is the Radical in Radical Form the Radical in Radical Politics?Hosam M. Aboul-Ela11 Miguel Angel Asturias and the Literature of the IndigenismoRené Prieto12 Borges in the World, the World in BorgesDaniel Balderston13 R.K. Narayan: The Elusive World of MalgudiNicholas Grene14 Patrick White: Creating "a Race Possessed with Understanding"Cynthia vanden Driesen15 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: "To Become One, and Yet Many"Lena M. Hill16 "Standing in a Doorway Looking": Doris Lessing's Transnational ReadingsAlice Ridout17 Gabriel García Márquez and the Worlding of Latin American LiteratureIlan Stavans18 Roberto Bolaño, Solar Anus of World LiteratureHéctor Hoyos19 Bridge Essay: Modern Poetry as a Global PhenomenonChristopher Lupke20 Opened Subjects, Opened Worlds: Rainer Maria Rilke, Vulnerability, and World-MakingHannah Vandegrift Eldridge21 "It's Early to Rejoice": Vladimir Mayakovsky's RevolutionsJames H. McGavran III22 Reading Cavafy Writing: The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy and the "World" in "World Literature"Mary N. Layoun23 Fernando Pessoa, Singular Modernity, and World LiteraturePaulo de Medeiros24 Federico García Lorca: Mediating Tradition and Modernity for a World AudienceRoberta Ann Quance25 Colonial Modernism and Inverted Subjectivity: The Paradoxes of the Mirror in the Writings of Yi SangHyun Seon Park26 T.S. Eliot and Modernist TranslationJohn D. Morgenstern27 Wisùawa Szymborska and the Limits of World LiteratureClare Cavanagh28 Forugh Farrokhzad and Her MadnessLeila Rahimi Bahmany29 Bridge Essay: Modern Drama: A Multidimensional Live Form of World LiteratureMary Luckhurst30 August Strindberg's Exilic ModernityEszter Szalczer31 Yearning for the "West": Osanai Kaoru and the Concept of Stand-Alone Dramas in Modern JapanMaki Isaka32 How Bertolt Brecht Managed to Forge a Defamiliarized World TheaterMary Luckhurst33 Samuel Beckett and World Literature: Toward the UniversalYoshiki Tajiri34 "And I Have the Same Restlessness Today": Vijay Tendulkar's Connected ReadingSai Bhatawadekar35 Wole Soyinka: Art, Politics, and the (African) WorldTaylor A. Eggan36 Sa'dallah Wannous: Syria's Premier Political Playwright and Social CriticRobert MyersIndex

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.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.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.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.

• Volume 1: Third Millenium bceto 600 ceGeneral Introduction: The Companion to World Literature … For Those Who YearnKen SeigneurieIntroduction to World Literature: Third Millennium bce to 600 ceWiebke Denecke1 Bridge Essay: The Ethical TurnLuke Clossey2 The Invisible World of the RigvedaCaley Charles Smith3 The Gathas, a Forgotten MasterpieceProds Oktor Skjærvø4 "Transcending the World" in World Literature: The UpanishadsSteven E. Lindquist5 The TaNaKH and the Canons of AlexandriaArmin Lange6 Echoes of the Classics in the Voice of ConfuciusMark Csikszentmihalyi7 Plato's Symposium: Eros, Beauty, and Metaphysical DesireAndrea Nightingale8 Aristotle's Virtue EthicsJohn Bowin9 The Gospel in Ancient Mediterranean ContextAlicia J. Batten10 Bridge Essay: Origins and Transformations: Tactics of Storying and World-MakingLowell Gallagher11 The Cultural Role of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in China and BeyondRichard J. Smith12 Teachings of the Venerable Masters: Laozi and the Daode jingLouis Komjathy13 Hesiod's Theogony: From Family Violence to Civic OrderStephen Scully14 Herodotus and His Readers: From Thucydides to the PresentDavid Branscome15 Ovid's Metamorphoses: Changing WorldsGenevieve Liveley16 Apuleius and The Golden Ass: Latin Novel, Universal Folktale, or Emblem of Globalized Literature?Véronique Gély17 Apocalyptic Literature in the Global ImaginationLorenzo DiTommaso18 Gnostic MythsMark Edwards19 Bridge Essay: Shifting Paradigms in Orality, Literacy, and LiteratureElizabeth Minchin20 The Septuagint as World LiteratureJan Joosten21 Origen of Alexandria: Christian Philosophy of FreedomAlfons Fürst22 Making the Bible World Literature: The Vulgate and Ancient VersionsIlaria L.E. Ramelli23 Kumarajiva: "Great Man" and Cultural EventRafal Felbur24 Contextualizing the Babylonian Talmud: The Roman East and Mesopotamian ChristianityRichard Kalmin25 Bridge Essay: Superhuman Humans: Heroes and HeroinesD.A. Miller26 Gilgamesh: A Cultural SeismographTheodore Ziolkowski27 Sinuhe: A Fugitive from Ancient EgyptRoland Enmarch28 Mahabharata: Brahmins, Kings, and the South Asian Social WorldLuther Obrock29 The First Poem: Valmiki's Ramayana and the Literary World of Southern AsiaRobert P. Goldman30 Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Poems of Many TurningsRichard P. Martin31 Aeschylus, Oresteia: Revenge, Justice, Gender, and DemocracyAlan H. Sommerstein32 Sophocles: Greek Poet, World ClassicP.J. Finglass33 Euripidean Tragedy: Between Myth and IndividuationJustina Gregory34 Nine Songs, Li sao, and Qu Yuan: The Ancient Art of MisreadingGopal Sukhu35 Sima Qian and the "Creation" of ChinaStephen Durrant36 Vergil's Aeneid: From Defeated Trojans to Imperial RomansChristine Perkell37 Augustine's Confessions: Beyond Aesthetics, Ethics, and CosmopolitanismKarla Pollmann38 Heliodorus' Aithiopika: The Birth of the NovelDavid Konstan39 Bridge Essay: From Epic to LyricDavid Konstan40 The Making of a Chinese Critical System: Liu Xie's Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Wenxin diaolong)Zong-qi Cai and Xiaohui Zhang41 Renewal in and Through Landscape: The Great Medieval Chinese Poet Xie LingyunMeow Hui Goh42 Sappho(s)Page duBois43 We Are the World: Subjectivity and Universality in the Odes of HoraceRandall L.B. McNeill44 Tao Yuanming's Poetics of AwkwardnessXiaofei Tian45 Bridge Essay: The Cuneiform World: A Difficult Text NetworkMark Weeden46 The Imperial Poetics of Ancient BucolicJay Reed47 The Panchatantra: World Literature Before "World Literature"McComas Taylor48 The Implied Listener: The Jatakas and Bardic World LiteratureSarah Shaw49 Translations and Travels of a Pious Prince: Barlaam and Josaphat and the Text NetworkPeggy McCracken50 Bridge Essay: Looking for Love, Finding Trouble: Reading Ancient World Literature, PassionatelySebastian Matzner51 The Shijing: The Beginnings of Chinese (and East Asian) PoetryAlexander Beecroft52 Erotic Words, Sacred Landscapes, Ideal Bodies: Love and Death in the Song of SongsFrancis Landy53 Image, Imagined, and Imagination in SilappadikaramH. Kalpana Rao54 The Erotic "World" of the KamasutraDaud Ali55 Love, Politics, and the Premodern Theater: Perspectives on Kalidasa's ShakuntalaAmanda Culp56 "Southeast Fly the Peacocks": An Elegy for Love from Early Medieval ChinaQiulei HuVolume 2: 601 ceto 1450 ceIntroduction to World Literature: 601 ce to 1450 ceChristine Chism1 Bridge Essay: Vernacularization and World Literature: The Language of Women in the World of GodMartin Eisner2 Qasida Poetry: A World unto ItselfAdam Talib3 Táin Bó Cúailnge: Ireland's Vernacular EpicJulie A. Le Blanc4 Nizami's Resonances in Persianate Literary Cultures and BeyondSunil Sharma5 Ma Zhiyuan Reworks Bai JuyiWilt L. Idema6 Walls of Inclusivity: Dante's Divine Comedy and World LiteratureAkash Kumar7 The Global Pilgrimage of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury TalesCandace Barrington8 Babri Mosque, Bollywood, and Gender: Ramcharitmanas as World LiteratureBhavya Tiwari9 Bridge Essay: Wisdom and Mysticism: On Transcendence and LiterarinessAzadeh Yamini-Hamedani10 The Qurʾan (Koran)Terri DeYoung and Ali Altaf Mian11 Love and Reason in the GhazalAlireza Korangy12 Hanshan and the Skillful Means of Buddhist VersePaul Rouzer13 "I Sing as Love Commands the Tune!": The Devotional Poetry of BasavannaGil Ben-Herut14 Mechthild von Magdeburg and the Mystical Poetry of The Flowing Light of the GodheadSara S. Poor15 Kabbalah: A Vibrant Nexus Between Theology and LiteratureEitan P. Fishbane16 Longing for Love: The Romance of Layla and MajnunAsghar Seyed-Gohrab17 Ibn al-'Arabi, the Greatest Master: On Knowledge, God, and SainthoodMukhtar H. Ali18 "He Has Come, Visible and Hidden": Jalal ad-Din Rumi's Poetic Presence and PastMatthew B. Lynch19 Meister Eckhart: From Latin Scholasticism to German MysticismRobert J. Dobie20 Mirabai's Poetry: The Worlding of a Hindu Woman Saint's Dynamic Song TraditionNancy M. Martin21 Bridge Essay: War and the Worlding of StoryWen-chin Ouyang22 The Arabic Alexander Romance: Mirror of a Bold, Clever, and Devout PrinceFaustina Doufikar-Aerts23 The Poetry of Xin Qiji: Patriotism and Its DiscontentsZhiyi Yang24 Troubadour Lyric in a Global Poetics: Creating Worlds Through DesireMarisa Galvez25 Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: A Complex Reshaping and Expansion of a SourceEvelyn Meyer26 The Margins of Literary History: Sagas, Eddic Poetry, and World LiteratureSif Rikhardsdottir27 The Tale of the Heike: War Narrative and the Boundaries of Literature in Medieval and Modern JapanVyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger28 Bridge Essay: "Home" and "Abroad" in Medieval Travel and Trade NarrativesShirin A. Khanmohamadi29 Allegory and "World" Formation in The Journey to the WestLing Hon Lam30 Ibn Battuta: A Fourteenth-Century Muslim Traveler of Worldly Desire and Heavenly HopeDavid Waines31 Marco Polo and the World Empire of LettersSharon Kinoshita32 Bridge Essay: Gender and Representation: New Approaches to Medieval LiteratureRosemarie McGerr33 Al-Khansaʾ: Representing the First-Person FeminineMarlé Hammond34 The Tale of Genji: Showing and Telling a WorldEdward Kamens35 A Woman Flouts Expectations in the Literary World: The Case of Li QingzhaoRonald Egan36 Francesco Petrarch: A Poet of "Multiple Belongings"Jennifer Rushworth37 Hafez of Shiraz, Constantinople, and WeltliteraturMir Shafiq Shamel38 Christine de Pizan: A Literary Champion of Medieval EuropeChristine McWebb39 Bridge Essay: Empire: A Roman MasterworkSarah M. Anderson40 Abu Tammum and Abbasid ModernismHuda J. Fakhreddine41 The Popular Chinese NovelMargaret B. Wan42 Digenis Akritis and the Frontiers of ByzantiumElizabeth Jeffreys43 Bridge Essay: World Collecting: Patronage, Spoliation, and Forms of GovernmentZrinka Stahuljak44 Making It New in Tang Dynasty Poetry: Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du FuMary Anne Cartelli45 The Secular Wisdom of Kalila and Dimna Karla Mallette46 Abu Nuwas: Poet of Wine, Desire, the Hunt, and the Abbasid EmpireJocelyn Sharlet47 Kokinshû: A Renaissance of Native VerseRoger Thomas48 Bridge Essay: Epic and Community: Heroism, Myth, and Memory Across CulturesAnthony Welch49 The Glory and the End of the Heroic World in the NibelungenliedAlbrecht Classen50 A Book of Kings as the King of Books: The Shahnameh of FerdowsiFranklin D. Lewis51 Conquest and Crusade in The Epic of the Cid Michael Harney52 The Book of Dede Korkut and the Nomadology of World LiteratureFirat Oruc53 The Kebra Nagast:An Israelite–Christian Dynastic and National Epic?Benjamin Hendrickx54 The Sundiata Epic and the Global Literary ImaginaryJames Tar TsaaiorVolume 3: 1451 to 1770Introduction to World Literature: 1451 to 1770Christopher Lupke1 Bridge Essay: European Religious Dissent and Conflict: Their Global Repercussions (1450–1770)Brenda Deen Schildgen2 The Philokalia: Corrugating the Texture of Christian-Inspired LiteratureKirill Dmitriev3 The Popol Wuj: A Colonial ContextNéstor I. Quiroa4 Kabir: Iconoclastic Mystic of IndiaLinda Hess5 The Guru Granth Sahib as a World Literary DialoguePashaura Singh6 Martin Luther, Literature, and the EnlightenmentBrian Cummings7 St. Teresa of Ávila: The Expression of Spanish SpiritualityCarole Slade8 John Milton's Pervasive PresencesNeil Forsyth9 Faith and Dissidence in Sor Juana Inés de la CruzDinorah Cortés-Vélez10 Bridge Essay: The Emergence of ModernityEric Hayot11 The Knight-Errant and the Good Fellow in Chinese Narrative: Water Margin and the Xia (Hero) TraditionRoland Altenburger12 Korean Sijo and Kasa as Boundary ObjectsWayne de Fremery13 The Lusiads Affect: Standing in the Middle of the SeaVincent Barletta14 A Model of Relational Individuality: MontaigneGeorge Hoffmann15 Akbarnama: Persian Chronicle in World LiteratureMeena Bhargava16 Making Room for the Individual in Descartes' Discourse on the MethodRichard Davies17 Matsuo Bashô Among the MortalsSteven D. Carter18 Samuel Richardson: Pamela and the Modern IndividualMary Helen McMurran19 Rousseau and the Firmament of Modern LiteratureMatthew W. Maguire20 Bridge Essay: Encyclopedism: Fire, Faith, and Future LearningSeth Rudy21 Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels: An Ottoman Experiment in Geographical EncyclopedismSooyong Kim22 The Bad Travels of Diderot's LiteratureLorraine Piroux23 Chinese Encyclopedism and the Power of KnowledgeBenjamin Elman24 The Educational and Social Worlds of Premodern Arabic EncyclopedismKelly Tuttle25 Bridge Essay: Fables and the FantasticRiccardo Capoferro26 Mastering a Minor Tradition: Pu Songling and the Chinese Ghost TaleLuo Hui27 Jingu qiguan: Fantasizing the Absent in Ming Dynasty Vernacular FictionXiaowen Xu28 Jean de La Fontaine's Fables: Poetizing and Problematizing a GenreAnne L. Birberick29 Gothic Ghosts and Gothic MirrorsJohn Whatley30 Bridge Essay: "O Brave Monster! Lead the Way": Theatricality in Drama and PerformanceKyna Hamill and Margaret Litvin31 Story of the Western Wing: The Pinnacle of ZajuStephen H. West32 The Arab Oral Epic of the Bani Hilal Tribe: Al-Sirah al-HilaliyyahSusan Slyomovics33 Locating Zeami Motokiyo in the History of NohNoel John Pinnington34 Literati and Peddlers: The Commedia dell'Arte and the German Idea of WeltliteraturRobert Henke35 Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon (Sisheng yuan)Shiamin Kwa36 William Shakespeare: Worlds Here, There, and ElsewhereKatherine Hennessey37 The Alternative Genius of Lope de VegaJonathan Thacker38 Staging France's Classical Theater World and Discovering Its LimitsMichèle Longino39 Chikamatsu Monzaemon: Historical Drama and Love Suicide PlaysSatoko Shimazaki40 Bridge Essay: OrientaliaDominique Jullien41 The 1001 Nights as World Literature: Cultural Appropriation and CollaborationPaulo Lemos Horta42 Journey of Knowledge in Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Bin YaqzanMahmoud Nayef Baroud43 The Orphan of Zhao on the World StageShiamin Kwa44 Genre and Geography in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando FuriosoJo Ann Cavallo45 Indigeneity, Orality, and the New World from Montaigne to Lévi-StraussMadeleine Dobie46 A Lash for the World: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels Ian Higgins47 Voltaire: The Orient of the EnlightenmentNicholas Cronk48 Bridge Essay: The Novel; Or, the Power and Functions of FictionalityJames Phelan49 Lust and Love in English Translation: Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone Andrew Schonebaum50 Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Navel of a WorldMarie-Luce Demonet51 Cervantes: Don QuixoteBruce R. Burningham52 The Story of Hong Kiltong (Hong Kiltong chŏn) and Its Development into a Hybrid TextHyuk-chan Kwon53 Daniel Defoe: Robinson CrusoeAnn Marie FallonVolume 4: 1771 to 1919Introduction to World Literature: 1771 to 1919Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis1 Bridge Essay: Colonial Encounters in the Worlding of LiteratureFrieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis2 Colonial Education and Literary Self-Fashioning in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: The Career and Legacy of Michael Madhusudan DattaSuddhaseel Sen3 Philology Everywhere: World Literature and Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's Leg Over LegJeffrey Sacks4 Rudyard Kipling: From Lahore to the WorldDavid Damrosch5 A Persisting Unease: Joseph Conrad's (Post)Colonial FictionsAllan H. Simmons6 Gu Hongming's Journey from British Malaya, via Europe, to China and the Confucian ClassicsAlison M. Groppe7 Tagore at the Conjunction of World LiteratureTania Roy8 Bridge Essay: Literary Translation in the Modern WorldMelek Ortabasi9 Edward FitzGerald's Translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Appeal of Terse HedonismAsghar Seyed-Gohrab10 Richard Burton: Foreignizing LiteraturePaulo Lemos Horta11 Lin Shu and the Routes of World LiteratureMichael Gibbs Hill12 Bridge Essay: The Nation: The Mighty Idea and the NovelNora E.H. Parr13 Politics and Idiosyncrasies: The Global Parsing of Alexander PushkinSara Dickinson14 Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Inauguration of the Modern Indian NovelRosinka Chaudhuri15 From Delhi to Isfahan and Beyond: Mirza Ghalib in World LiteratureMehr Afshan Farooqi16 Jurji Zaydan: Avatar of the Modern Revitalization and Worlding of Arabic LiteratureKamran Rastegar17 The Cultural Landscape of Colonial Korea's First Modern Novel, The Heartless (1917)Ellie Choi18 Bridge Essay: Intimate Life and RomanticismTim Mehigan19 Goethe's World Literature Paradigm: From Uneasy Cosmopolitanism to Literary ModernismJohn D. Pizer20 The English Lake Poets of the WorldJuan L. Sanchez21 Jane Austen on the Global StageSusan Fraiman22 Narrative and Genre: Locating Tanci in Chinese Literature and World LiteratureLi Guo23 Translating Content and Form from Vietnamese into World Literature: The Case of KieuK.W. Taylor24 Victor Hugo's Romantic RegistersKathryn M. Grossman25 "If the World Be Looking On": Emily Dickinson Beyond AmherstWoody Brown26 Jorge Isaacs's Diasporic Novel: María Between National and World LiteraturesFelipe Martínez-Pinzón27 Walt Whitman "Over the Roofs of the World"Delphine Rumeau28 Six Records of a Life Adrift: A Unique Lyrical Memoir of Late Imperial ChinaGraham Sanders29 Leo Tolstoy: Toward an Emotionally Infectious World LiteratureJohn Burt Foster Jr.30 The Other Woman: Mirza Hadi Rusva's Umrao Jan Ada and the Politics of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century IndiaMaryam Wasif Khan31 Bridge Essay: Fairy-Tale TransformationsFrancisco Vaz da Silva32 Brothers Grimm: Oral-to-Literary Translation of Fairy TalesBrandy E. Wilcox33 Hans Christian Andersen: Literariness and the Circulatory System of World LiteratureJulie K. Allen34 The Boy Who Came from a Peach and the Girl with a Bowl on Her Head: The Many Faces of Japanese Fairy TalesLaura K. Nüffer35 Bridge Essay: Realism: Understanding the Real By Way of Unexpected RomanceTiffany Bassett36 Splendors and Miseries of Modernity: Honoré de BalzacMichal P. Ginsburg37 Material Inscriptions: Charles Baudelaire and the Poetry of the Modern WorldRobert St. Clair38 Charles Dickens: Transnational Responses and Cultural ImaginariesKlaudia Hiu Yen Lee39 George Eliot's Impact as Novelist and Critic on World LiteratureJohn Rignall40 Retrying FlaubertKathryn Oliver Mills41 Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A "Novelist of Ideas" for the WorldAlexander Burry42 Between Ideas and Practices: Bharatendu Harishchandra and Modern Hindi in Colonial IndiaFrancesca Orsini43 Herman Melville and the "Harborless Immensities" of World LiteraturePaul Lyons44 Émile Zola: The Pursuit of "Truth"Brian Nelson45 Machado de Assis: Beyond Brazilian ImperativesPaul Dixon46 Natsume Sôseki: A Japanese Writer's Global Literary Community of GriefAlan Tansman47 Defying Borders: Anton Chekhov's Elusive GeniusOlga Tabachnikova48 Henrik Ibsen: Critique from WithinFrode Helland49 Resignation Open Eyed: On the Novel Rickshaw Boy by Lao SheThomas Moran50 Rubén Darío and the Nymph of FranceJorge Luis Castillo51 Ahmad Shawqi: At the Threshold of World LiteratureYaseen Noorani52 Bridge Essay: Inalienable: Human Rights and World LiteratureMark Deggan53 Performing Narratives: Slave Narratives on the World StageHeidi Morse54 "But Women Feel Just as Men Do": Gender Rights in Nineteenth-Century World LiteratureJulia McCord Chavez55 The "Dreaded Comparison" Revisited: Animal and Black Human RightsBénédicte BoisseronVolume 5a: 1920 to Early Twenty-First Century IIntroduction to World Literature: 1920 to the Early Twenty-First CenturyB. Venkat Mani1 Bridge Essay: From Decolonization to DecolonialityAmardeep Singh2 José Martí: The World's Most Popular Poetry, and a Vision for the AmericasAnne Fountain3 Frantz Fanon: Knowing in the First PersonSeloua Luste Boulbina4 W.E.B. Du Bois, World Literature, and the Problem of MethodAinsworth Clarke5 The Dialectic of Individual and World System: Chen Yingzhen's Move from Existentialism to MarxismChristopher Lupke6 Mahmoud Darwish: A Plurality of Voices for Invoking the OtherStephan Milich7 World Literature, World War: Revisiting Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the NorthShaden M. Tageldin8 Indonesian Dissidence and Modern Narrative Form: Pramoedya Ananta ToerChristopher GoGwilt9 V.S. Naipaul: Connecting His Past to Those of Other Postcolonial PeoplesSanjay Krishnan10 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Networks, Literary Activism, and the Production of World LiteratureKate Wallis11 Between Realism and Modernism: Chinua Achebe and the Making of African LiteratureSimon Gikandi12 Bridge Essay: Home-Bodies: Exiles, Migration, and Diaspora in the World Literary EngagementAbigail E. Celis13 Pioneers! O Pioneers! Modern Arabic Literature in the USAAlyn Hine14 A Kind of Testament: Reading Witold Gombrowicz as a Transnational WriterGeorge Gasyna15 Julio Cortázar: Between Aesthetics and Politics: The Travails of a Literary TravelerDan Russek16 The Writer's Passport: Vladimir Nabokov and World LiteratureMonica Manolescu17 Abd al-Rahman Munif: Tracing Alternative Stories East of the MediterraneanSonja Mejcher-Atassi18 Worlding Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing): Narratives of Frontiers and CrossingsNicole Huang19 Language as Medium and as Fiction in Assia Djebar's workSoraya Tlatli20 Salman Rushdie and the World Picture of IslamDebjani Ganguly21 Kazuo Ishiguro's Thinking NovelsChris Holmes22 Bridge Essay: Literature and Liberalism: An Evolving SymbiosisKen Seigneurie23 Thomas Mann: National Monument and World AuthorDavid Horton24 "A Humanitarian Is Always a Hypocrite": George Orwell, Englishness, and EmpiresBen Clarke25 Kim Tong-in and the Liberal Self in Modern Korean LiteratureJae-Yon Lee26 Living Like a Dervish: Sadegh HedayatShen Yiming27 Albert Camus: Still Challenging the Status QuoToby Garfitt28 Anna Akhmatova, Cosmopolitanism, and World LiteratureAlexandra Harrington29 To the Frontier of the Mind: Shen Congwen and World LiteratureJiwei Xiao30 Léopold Sédar Senghor or the Universal ConcertNimrod31 Czesùaw Miùosz in the World: The Will to TranscendenceMagdalena Kay32 Naguib Mahfouz: A Liberal in a Conservative SocietyClara Srouji-Shajrawi33 Bridge Essay: From Human Rights to Social Justice: Literature and the Struggle for a Better WorldMarta Caminero-Santangelo34 Lu Xun's Fictional WorldsNicholas A. Kaldis35 Maxim Gorky: Living and Writing ProtestDale E. Peterson36 Transnational Voices of Resistance: Richard Wright and James BaldwinPekka A. Kilpeläinen37 Pablo Neruda: World Literature and Human RightsMarcelo Pellegrini38 We Who Have Been Killed on Dark Paths: Faiz Ahmad Faiz's Internationalism and World LiteratureGwendolyn S. Kirk39 Aimé Césaire in the Era of Black Lives MatterFrieda Ekotto40 Nadine Gordimer: Between South Africa and the WorldSimon Lewis41 Mulk Raj Anand's World Literature: Humanism, Crowds, Caste, and ModernismJ. Daniel Elam42 Toni Morrison's Fiction: "Worlding" the NovelTessa RoynonVolume 5b: 1920 to Early Twenty-First Century IIIntroduction to World Literature: 1920 to the Early Twenty-First CenturyB. Venkat Mani1 Bridge Essay: The Moral Limits of Archive: Modern Narrative in World LiteratureSaikat Majumdar2 Marcel Proust: The Plasticity of a Modernist IconVincent Ferré3 Franz Kafka: Modernism, Modernity, Myth, and ReligionManfred Engel4 Social Realism and Moral Affects: The Worlds of Munshi PremchandNikhil Govind5 James Joyce-ing World LiteratureEishiro Ito6 "England's Most Precious Gift": Virginia Woolf's Transformations into SpanishLaura María Lojo Rodríguez7 Kawabata Yasunari: Modernism, Memory, and DesireDennis Washburn8 Knut Hamsun: Modernity's Primal BirthingMark Deggan9 Ernest Hemingway: Global American ModernistLisa Tyler10 William Faulkner and the World Literature Debate: Is the Radical in Radical Form the Radical in Radical Politics?Hosam M. Aboul-Ela11 Miguel Angel Asturias and the Literature of the IndigenismoRené Prieto12 Borges in the World, the World in BorgesDaniel Balderston13 R.K. Narayan: The Elusive World of MalgudiNicholas Grene14 Patrick White: Creating "a Race Possessed with Understanding"Cynthia vanden Driesen15 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: "To Become One, and Yet Many"Lena M. Hill16 "Standing in a Doorway Looking": Doris Lessing's Transnational ReadingsAlice Ridout17 Gabriel García Márquez and the Worlding of Latin American LiteratureIlan Stavans18 Roberto Bolaño, Solar Anus of World LiteratureHéctor Hoyos19 Bridge Essay: Modern Poetry as a Global PhenomenonChristopher Lupke20 Opened Subjects, Opened Worlds: Rainer Maria Rilke, Vulnerability, and World-MakingHannah Vandegrift Eldridge21 "It's Early to Rejoice": Vladimir Mayakovsky's RevolutionsJames H. McGavran III22 Reading Cavafy Writing: The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy and the "World" in "World Literature"Mary N. Layoun23 Fernando Pessoa, Singular Modernity, and World LiteraturePaulo de Medeiros24 Federico García Lorca: Mediating Tradition and Modernity for a World AudienceRoberta Ann Quance25 Colonial Modernism and Inverted Subjectivity: The Paradoxes of the Mirror in the Writings of Yi SangHyun Seon Park26 T.S. Eliot and Modernist TranslationJohn D. Morgenstern27 Wisùawa Szymborska and the Limits of World LiteratureClare Cavanagh28 Forugh Farrokhzad and Her MadnessLeila Rahimi Bahmany29 Bridge Essay: Modern Drama: A Multidimensional Live Form of World LiteratureMary Luckhurst30 August Strindberg's Exilic ModernityEszter Szalczer31 Yearning for the "West": Osanai Kaoru and the Concept of Stand-Alone Dramas in Modern JapanMaki Isaka32 How Bertolt Brecht Managed to Forge a Defamiliarized World TheaterMary Luckhurst33 Samuel Beckett and World Literature: Toward the UniversalYoshiki Tajiri34 "And I Have the Same Restlessness Today": Vijay Tendulkar's Connected ReadingSai Bhatawadekar35 Wole Soyinka: Art, Politics, and the (African) WorldTaylor A. Eggan36 Sa'dallah Wannous: Syria's Premier Political Playwright and Social CriticRobert MyersIndex

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.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.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.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.

• Volume 1: Third Millenium bceto 600 ceGeneral Introduction: The Companion to World Literature … For Those Who YearnKen SeigneurieIntroduction to World Literature: Third Millennium bce to 600 ceWiebke Denecke1 Bridge Essay: The Ethical TurnLuke Clossey2 The Invisible World of the RigvedaCaley Charles Smith3 The Gathas, a Forgotten MasterpieceProds Oktor Skjærvø4 "Transcending the World" in World Literature: The UpanishadsSteven E. Lindquist5 The TaNaKH and the Canons of AlexandriaArmin Lange6 Echoes of the Classics in the Voice of ConfuciusMark Csikszentmihalyi7 Plato's Symposium: Eros, Beauty, and Metaphysical DesireAndrea Nightingale8 Aristotle's Virtue EthicsJohn Bowin9 The Gospel in Ancient Mediterranean ContextAlicia J. Batten10 Bridge Essay: Origins and Transformations: Tactics of Storying and World-MakingLowell Gallagher11 The Cultural Role of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in China and BeyondRichard J. Smith12 Teachings of the Venerable Masters: Laozi and the Daode jingLouis Komjathy13 Hesiod's Theogony: From Family Violence to Civic OrderStephen Scully14 Herodotus and His Readers: From Thucydides to the PresentDavid Branscome15 Ovid's Metamorphoses: Changing WorldsGenevieve Liveley16 Apuleius and The Golden Ass: Latin Novel, Universal Folktale, or Emblem of Globalized Literature?Véronique Gély17 Apocalyptic Literature in the Global ImaginationLorenzo DiTommaso18 Gnostic MythsMark Edwards19 Bridge Essay: Shifting Paradigms in Orality, Literacy, and LiteratureElizabeth Minchin20 The Septuagint as World LiteratureJan Joosten21 Origen of Alexandria: Christian Philosophy of FreedomAlfons Fürst22 Making the Bible World Literature: The Vulgate and Ancient VersionsIlaria L.E. Ramelli23 Kumarajiva: "Great Man" and Cultural EventRafal Felbur24 Contextualizing the Babylonian Talmud: The Roman East and Mesopotamian ChristianityRichard Kalmin25 Bridge Essay: Superhuman Humans: Heroes and HeroinesD.A. Miller26 Gilgamesh: A Cultural SeismographTheodore Ziolkowski27 Sinuhe: A Fugitive from Ancient EgyptRoland Enmarch28 Mahabharata: Brahmins, Kings, and the South Asian Social WorldLuther Obrock29 The First Poem: Valmiki's Ramayana and the Literary World of Southern AsiaRobert P. Goldman30 Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Poems of Many TurningsRichard P. Martin31 Aeschylus, Oresteia: Revenge, Justice, Gender, and DemocracyAlan H. Sommerstein32 Sophocles: Greek Poet, World ClassicP.J. Finglass33 Euripidean Tragedy: Between Myth and IndividuationJustina Gregory34 Nine Songs, Li sao, and Qu Yuan: The Ancient Art of MisreadingGopal Sukhu35 Sima Qian and the "Creation" of ChinaStephen Durrant36 Vergil's Aeneid: From Defeated Trojans to Imperial RomansChristine Perkell37 Augustine's Confessions: Beyond Aesthetics, Ethics, and CosmopolitanismKarla Pollmann38 Heliodorus' Aithiopika: The Birth of the NovelDavid Konstan39 Bridge Essay: From Epic to LyricDavid Konstan40 The Making of a Chinese Critical System: Liu Xie's Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Wenxin diaolong)Zong-qi Cai and Xiaohui Zhang41 Renewal in and Through Landscape: The Great Medieval Chinese Poet Xie LingyunMeow Hui Goh42 Sappho(s)Page duBois43 We Are the World: Subjectivity and Universality in the Odes of HoraceRandall L.B. McNeill44 Tao Yuanming's Poetics of AwkwardnessXiaofei Tian45 Bridge Essay: The Cuneiform World: A Difficult Text NetworkMark Weeden46 The Imperial Poetics of Ancient BucolicJay Reed47 The Panchatantra: World Literature Before "World Literature"McComas Taylor48 The Implied Listener: The Jatakas and Bardic World LiteratureSarah Shaw49 Translations and Travels of a Pious Prince: Barlaam and Josaphat and the Text NetworkPeggy McCracken50 Bridge Essay: Looking for Love, Finding Trouble: Reading Ancient World Literature, PassionatelySebastian Matzner51 The Shijing: The Beginnings of Chinese (and East Asian) PoetryAlexander Beecroft52 Erotic Words, Sacred Landscapes, Ideal Bodies: Love and Death in the Song of SongsFrancis Landy53 Image, Imagined, and Imagination in SilappadikaramH. Kalpana Rao54 The Erotic "World" of the KamasutraDaud Ali55 Love, Politics, and the Premodern Theater: Perspectives on Kalidasa's ShakuntalaAmanda Culp56 "Southeast Fly the Peacocks": An Elegy for Love from Early Medieval ChinaQiulei HuVolume 2: 601 ceto 1450 ceIntroduction to World Literature: 601 ce to 1450 ceChristine Chism1 Bridge Essay: Vernacularization and World Literature: The Language of Women in the World of GodMartin Eisner2 Qasida Poetry: A World unto ItselfAdam Talib3 Táin Bó Cúailnge: Ireland's Vernacular EpicJulie A. Le Blanc4 Nizami's Resonances in Persianate Literary Cultures and BeyondSunil Sharma5 Ma Zhiyuan Reworks Bai JuyiWilt L. Idema6 Walls of Inclusivity: Dante's Divine Comedy and World LiteratureAkash Kumar7 The Global Pilgrimage of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury TalesCandace Barrington8 Babri Mosque, Bollywood, and Gender: Ramcharitmanas as World LiteratureBhavya Tiwari9 Bridge Essay: Wisdom and Mysticism: On Transcendence and LiterarinessAzadeh Yamini-Hamedani10 The Qurʾan (Koran)Terri DeYoung and Ali Altaf Mian11 Love and Reason in the GhazalAlireza Korangy12 Hanshan and the Skillful Means of Buddhist VersePaul Rouzer13 "I Sing as Love Commands the Tune!": The Devotional Poetry of BasavannaGil Ben-Herut14 Mechthild von Magdeburg and the Mystical Poetry of The Flowing Light of the GodheadSara S. Poor15 Kabbalah: A Vibrant Nexus Between Theology and LiteratureEitan P. Fishbane16 Longing for Love: The Romance of Layla and MajnunAsghar Seyed-Gohrab17 Ibn al-'Arabi, the Greatest Master: On Knowledge, God, and SainthoodMukhtar H. Ali18 "He Has Come, Visible and Hidden": Jalal ad-Din Rumi's Poetic Presence and PastMatthew B. Lynch19 Meister Eckhart: From Latin Scholasticism to German MysticismRobert J. Dobie20 Mirabai's Poetry: The Worlding of a Hindu Woman Saint's Dynamic Song TraditionNancy M. Martin21 Bridge Essay: War and the Worlding of StoryWen-chin Ouyang22 The Arabic Alexander Romance: Mirror of a Bold, Clever, and Devout PrinceFaustina Doufikar-Aerts23 The Poetry of Xin Qiji: Patriotism and Its DiscontentsZhiyi Yang24 Troubadour Lyric in a Global Poetics: Creating Worlds Through DesireMarisa Galvez25 Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: A Complex Reshaping and Expansion of a SourceEvelyn Meyer26 The Margins of Literary History: Sagas, Eddic Poetry, and World LiteratureSif Rikhardsdottir27 The Tale of the Heike: War Narrative and the Boundaries of Literature in Medieval and Modern JapanVyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger28 Bridge Essay: "Home" and "Abroad" in Medieval Travel and Trade NarrativesShirin A. Khanmohamadi29 Allegory and "World" Formation in The Journey to the WestLing Hon Lam30 Ibn Battuta: A Fourteenth-Century Muslim Traveler of Worldly Desire and Heavenly HopeDavid Waines31 Marco Polo and the World Empire of LettersSharon Kinoshita32 Bridge Essay: Gender and Representation: New Approaches to Medieval LiteratureRosemarie McGerr33 Al-Khansaʾ: Representing the First-Person FeminineMarlé Hammond34 The Tale of Genji: Showing and Telling a WorldEdward Kamens35 A Woman Flouts Expectations in the Literary World: The Case of Li QingzhaoRonald Egan36 Francesco Petrarch: A Poet of "Multiple Belongings"Jennifer Rushworth37 Hafez of Shiraz, Constantinople, and WeltliteraturMir Shafiq Shamel38 Christine de Pizan: A Literary Champion of Medieval EuropeChristine McWebb39 Bridge Essay: Empire: A Roman MasterworkSarah M. Anderson40 Abu Tammum and Abbasid ModernismHuda J. Fakhreddine41 The Popular Chinese NovelMargaret B. Wan42 Digenis Akritis and the Frontiers of ByzantiumElizabeth Jeffreys43 Bridge Essay: World Collecting: Patronage, Spoliation, and Forms of GovernmentZrinka Stahuljak44 Making It New in Tang Dynasty Poetry: Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du FuMary Anne Cartelli45 The Secular Wisdom of Kalila and Dimna Karla Mallette46 Abu Nuwas: Poet of Wine, Desire, the Hunt, and the Abbasid EmpireJocelyn Sharlet47 Kokinshû: A Renaissance of Native VerseRoger Thomas48 Bridge Essay: Epic and Community: Heroism, Myth, and Memory Across CulturesAnthony Welch49 The Glory and the End of the Heroic World in the NibelungenliedAlbrecht Classen50 A Book of Kings as the King of Books: The Shahnameh of FerdowsiFranklin D. Lewis51 Conquest and Crusade in The Epic of the Cid Michael Harney52 The Book of Dede Korkut and the Nomadology of World LiteratureFirat Oruc53 The Kebra Nagast:An Israelite–Christian Dynastic and National Epic?Benjamin Hendrickx54 The Sundiata Epic and the Global Literary ImaginaryJames Tar TsaaiorVolume 3: 1451 to 1770Introduction to World Literature: 1451 to 1770Christopher Lupke1 Bridge Essay: European Religious Dissent and Conflict: Their Global Repercussions (1450–1770)Brenda Deen Schildgen2 The Philokalia: Corrugating the Texture of Christian-Inspired LiteratureKirill Dmitriev3 The Popol Wuj: A Colonial ContextNéstor I. Quiroa4 Kabir: Iconoclastic Mystic of IndiaLinda Hess5 The Guru Granth Sahib as a World Literary DialoguePashaura Singh6 Martin Luther, Literature, and the EnlightenmentBrian Cummings7 St. Teresa of Ávila: The Expression of Spanish SpiritualityCarole Slade8 John Milton's Pervasive PresencesNeil Forsyth9 Faith and Dissidence in Sor Juana Inés de la CruzDinorah Cortés-Vélez10 Bridge Essay: The Emergence of ModernityEric Hayot11 The Knight-Errant and the Good Fellow in Chinese Narrative: Water Margin and the Xia (Hero) TraditionRoland Altenburger12 Korean Sijo and Kasa as Boundary ObjectsWayne de Fremery13 The Lusiads Affect: Standing in the Middle of the SeaVincent Barletta14 A Model of Relational Individuality: MontaigneGeorge Hoffmann15 Akbarnama: Persian Chronicle in World LiteratureMeena Bhargava16 Making Room for the Individual in Descartes' Discourse on the MethodRichard Davies17 Matsuo Bashô Among the MortalsSteven D. Carter18 Samuel Richardson: Pamela and the Modern IndividualMary Helen McMurran19 Rousseau and the Firmament of Modern LiteratureMatthew W. Maguire20 Bridge Essay: Encyclopedism: Fire, Faith, and Future LearningSeth Rudy21 Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels: An Ottoman Experiment in Geographical EncyclopedismSooyong Kim22 The Bad Travels of Diderot's LiteratureLorraine Piroux23 Chinese Encyclopedism and the Power of KnowledgeBenjamin Elman24 The Educational and Social Worlds of Premodern Arabic EncyclopedismKelly Tuttle25 Bridge Essay: Fables and the FantasticRiccardo Capoferro26 Mastering a Minor Tradition: Pu Songling and the Chinese Ghost TaleLuo Hui27 Jingu qiguan: Fantasizing the Absent in Ming Dynasty Vernacular FictionXiaowen Xu28 Jean de La Fontaine's Fables: Poetizing and Problematizing a GenreAnne L. Birberick29 Gothic Ghosts and Gothic MirrorsJohn Whatley30 Bridge Essay: "O Brave Monster! Lead the Way": Theatricality in Drama and PerformanceKyna Hamill and Margaret Litvin31 Story of the Western Wing: The Pinnacle of ZajuStephen H. West32 The Arab Oral Epic of the Bani Hilal Tribe: Al-Sirah al-HilaliyyahSusan Slyomovics33 Locating Zeami Motokiyo in the History of NohNoel John Pinnington34 Literati and Peddlers: The Commedia dell'Arte and the German Idea of WeltliteraturRobert Henke35 Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon (Sisheng yuan)Shiamin Kwa36 William Shakespeare: Worlds Here, There, and ElsewhereKatherine Hennessey37 The Alternative Genius of Lope de VegaJonathan Thacker38 Staging France's Classical Theater World and Discovering Its LimitsMichèle Longino39 Chikamatsu Monzaemon: Historical Drama and Love Suicide PlaysSatoko Shimazaki40 Bridge Essay: OrientaliaDominique Jullien41 The 1001 Nights as World Literature: Cultural Appropriation and CollaborationPaulo Lemos Horta42 Journey of Knowledge in Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Bin YaqzanMahmoud Nayef Baroud43 The Orphan of Zhao on the World StageShiamin Kwa44 Genre and Geography in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando FuriosoJo Ann Cavallo45 Indigeneity, Orality, and the New World from Montaigne to Lévi-StraussMadeleine Dobie46 A Lash for the World: Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels Ian Higgins47 Voltaire: The Orient of the EnlightenmentNicholas Cronk48 Bridge Essay: The Novel; Or, the Power and Functions of FictionalityJames Phelan49 Lust and Love in English Translation: Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone Andrew Schonebaum50 Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel: The Navel of a WorldMarie-Luce Demonet51 Cervantes: Don QuixoteBruce R. Burningham52 The Story of Hong Kiltong (Hong Kiltong chŏn) and Its Development into a Hybrid TextHyuk-chan Kwon53 Daniel Defoe: Robinson CrusoeAnn Marie FallonVolume 4: 1771 to 1919Introduction to World Literature: 1771 to 1919Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis1 Bridge Essay: Colonial Encounters in the Worlding of LiteratureFrieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis2 Colonial Education and Literary Self-Fashioning in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: The Career and Legacy of Michael Madhusudan DattaSuddhaseel Sen3 Philology Everywhere: World Literature and Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's Leg Over LegJeffrey Sacks4 Rudyard Kipling: From Lahore to the WorldDavid Damrosch5 A Persisting Unease: Joseph Conrad's (Post)Colonial FictionsAllan H. Simmons6 Gu Hongming's Journey from British Malaya, via Europe, to China and the Confucian ClassicsAlison M. Groppe7 Tagore at the Conjunction of World LiteratureTania Roy8 Bridge Essay: Literary Translation in the Modern WorldMelek Ortabasi9 Edward FitzGerald's Translation of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Appeal of Terse HedonismAsghar Seyed-Gohrab10 Richard Burton: Foreignizing LiteraturePaulo Lemos Horta11 Lin Shu and the Routes of World LiteratureMichael Gibbs Hill12 Bridge Essay: The Nation: The Mighty Idea and the NovelNora E.H. Parr13 Politics and Idiosyncrasies: The Global Parsing of Alexander PushkinSara Dickinson14 Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Inauguration of the Modern Indian NovelRosinka Chaudhuri15 From Delhi to Isfahan and Beyond: Mirza Ghalib in World LiteratureMehr Afshan Farooqi16 Jurji Zaydan: Avatar of the Modern Revitalization and Worlding of Arabic LiteratureKamran Rastegar17 The Cultural Landscape of Colonial Korea's First Modern Novel, The Heartless (1917)Ellie Choi18 Bridge Essay: Intimate Life and RomanticismTim Mehigan19 Goethe's World Literature Paradigm: From Uneasy Cosmopolitanism to Literary ModernismJohn D. Pizer20 The English Lake Poets of the WorldJuan L. Sanchez21 Jane Austen on the Global StageSusan Fraiman22 Narrative and Genre: Locating Tanci in Chinese Literature and World LiteratureLi Guo23 Translating Content and Form from Vietnamese into World Literature: The Case of KieuK.W. Taylor24 Victor Hugo's Romantic RegistersKathryn M. Grossman25 "If the World Be Looking On": Emily Dickinson Beyond AmherstWoody Brown26 Jorge Isaacs's Diasporic Novel: María Between National and World LiteraturesFelipe Martínez-Pinzón27 Walt Whitman "Over the Roofs of the World"Delphine Rumeau28 Six Records of a Life Adrift: A Unique Lyrical Memoir of Late Imperial ChinaGraham Sanders29 Leo Tolstoy: Toward an Emotionally Infectious World LiteratureJohn Burt Foster Jr.30 The Other Woman: Mirza Hadi Rusva's Umrao Jan Ada and the Politics of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century IndiaMaryam Wasif Khan31 Bridge Essay: Fairy-Tale TransformationsFrancisco Vaz da Silva32 Brothers Grimm: Oral-to-Literary Translation of Fairy TalesBrandy E. Wilcox33 Hans Christian Andersen: Literariness and the Circulatory System of World LiteratureJulie K. Allen34 The Boy Who Came from a Peach and the Girl with a Bowl on Her Head: The Many Faces of Japanese Fairy TalesLaura K. Nüffer35 Bridge Essay: Realism: Understanding the Real By Way of Unexpected RomanceTiffany Bassett36 Splendors and Miseries of Modernity: Honoré de BalzacMichal P. Ginsburg37 Material Inscriptions: Charles Baudelaire and the Poetry of the Modern WorldRobert St. Clair38 Charles Dickens: Transnational Responses and Cultural ImaginariesKlaudia Hiu Yen Lee39 George Eliot's Impact as Novelist and Critic on World LiteratureJohn Rignall40 Retrying FlaubertKathryn Oliver Mills41 Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A "Novelist of Ideas" for the WorldAlexander Burry42 Between Ideas and Practices: Bharatendu Harishchandra and Modern Hindi in Colonial IndiaFrancesca Orsini43 Herman Melville and the "Harborless Immensities" of World LiteraturePaul Lyons44 Émile Zola: The Pursuit of "Truth"Brian Nelson45 Machado de Assis: Beyond Brazilian ImperativesPaul Dixon46 Natsume Sôseki: A Japanese Writer's Global Literary Community of GriefAlan Tansman47 Defying Borders: Anton Chekhov's Elusive GeniusOlga Tabachnikova48 Henrik Ibsen: Critique from WithinFrode Helland49 Resignation Open Eyed: On the Novel Rickshaw Boy by Lao SheThomas Moran50 Rubén Darío and the Nymph of FranceJorge Luis Castillo51 Ahmad Shawqi: At the Threshold of World LiteratureYaseen Noorani52 Bridge Essay: Inalienable: Human Rights and World LiteratureMark Deggan53 Performing Narratives: Slave Narratives on the World StageHeidi Morse54 "But Women Feel Just as Men Do": Gender Rights in Nineteenth-Century World LiteratureJulia McCord Chavez55 The "Dreaded Comparison" Revisited: Animal and Black Human RightsBénédicte BoisseronVolume 5a: 1920 to Early Twenty-First Century IIntroduction to World Literature: 1920 to the Early Twenty-First CenturyB. Venkat Mani1 Bridge Essay: From Decolonization to DecolonialityAmardeep Singh2 José Martí: The World's Most Popular Poetry, and a Vision for the AmericasAnne Fountain3 Frantz Fanon: Knowing in the First PersonSeloua Luste Boulbina4 W.E.B. Du Bois, World Literature, and the Problem of MethodAinsworth Clarke5 The Dialectic of Individual and World System: Chen Yingzhen's Move from Existentialism to MarxismChristopher Lupke6 Mahmoud Darwish: A Plurality of Voices for Invoking the OtherStephan Milich7 World Literature, World War: Revisiting Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the NorthShaden M. Tageldin8 Indonesian Dissidence and Modern Narrative Form: Pramoedya Ananta ToerChristopher GoGwilt9 V.S. Naipaul: Connecting His Past to Those of Other Postcolonial PeoplesSanjay Krishnan10 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o: Networks, Literary Activism, and the Production of World LiteratureKate Wallis11 Between Realism and Modernism: Chinua Achebe and the Making of African LiteratureSimon Gikandi12 Bridge Essay: Home-Bodies: Exiles, Migration, and Diaspora in the World Literary EngagementAbigail E. Celis13 Pioneers! O Pioneers! Modern Arabic Literature in the USAAlyn Hine14 A Kind of Testament: Reading Witold Gombrowicz as a Transnational WriterGeorge Gasyna15 Julio Cortázar: Between Aesthetics and Politics: The Travails of a Literary TravelerDan Russek16 The Writer's Passport: Vladimir Nabokov and World LiteratureMonica Manolescu17 Abd al-Rahman Munif: Tracing Alternative Stories East of the MediterraneanSonja Mejcher-Atassi18 Worlding Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing): Narratives of Frontiers and CrossingsNicole Huang19 Language as Medium and as Fiction in Assia Djebar's workSoraya Tlatli20 Salman Rushdie and the World Picture of IslamDebjani Ganguly21 Kazuo Ishiguro's Thinking NovelsChris Holmes22 Bridge Essay: Literature and Liberalism: An Evolving SymbiosisKen Seigneurie23 Thomas Mann: National Monument and World AuthorDavid Horton24 "A Humanitarian Is Always a Hypocrite": George Orwell, Englishness, and EmpiresBen Clarke25 Kim Tong-in and the Liberal Self in Modern Korean LiteratureJae-Yon Lee26 Living Like a Dervish: Sadegh HedayatShen Yiming27 Albert Camus: Still Challenging the Status QuoToby Garfitt28 Anna Akhmatova, Cosmopolitanism, and World LiteratureAlexandra Harrington29 To the Frontier of the Mind: Shen Congwen and World LiteratureJiwei Xiao30 Léopold Sédar Senghor or the Universal ConcertNimrod31 Czesùaw Miùosz in the World: The Will to TranscendenceMagdalena Kay32 Naguib Mahfouz: A Liberal in a Conservative SocietyClara Srouji-Shajrawi33 Bridge Essay: From Human Rights to Social Justice: Literature and the Struggle for a Better WorldMarta Caminero-Santangelo34 Lu Xun's Fictional WorldsNicholas A. Kaldis35 Maxim Gorky: Living and Writing ProtestDale E. Peterson36 Transnational Voices of Resistance: Richard Wright and James BaldwinPekka A. Kilpeläinen37 Pablo Neruda: World Literature and Human RightsMarcelo Pellegrini38 We Who Have Been Killed on Dark Paths: Faiz Ahmad Faiz's Internationalism and World LiteratureGwendolyn S. Kirk39 Aimé Césaire in the Era of Black Lives MatterFrieda Ekotto40 Nadine Gordimer: Between South Africa and the WorldSimon Lewis41 Mulk Raj Anand's World Literature: Humanism, Crowds, Caste, and ModernismJ. Daniel Elam42 Toni Morrison's Fiction: "Worlding" the NovelTessa RoynonVolume 5b: 1920 to Early Twenty-First Century IIIntroduction to World Literature: 1920 to the Early Twenty-First CenturyB. Venkat Mani1 Bridge Essay: The Moral Limits of Archive: Modern Narrative in World LiteratureSaikat Majumdar2 Marcel Proust: The Plasticity of a Modernist IconVincent Ferré3 Franz Kafka: Modernism, Modernity, Myth, and ReligionManfred Engel4 Social Realism and Moral Affects: The Worlds of Munshi PremchandNikhil Govind5 James Joyce-ing World LiteratureEishiro Ito6 "England's Most Precious Gift": Virginia Woolf's Transformations into SpanishLaura María Lojo Rodríguez7 Kawabata Yasunari: Modernism, Memory, and DesireDennis Washburn8 Knut Hamsun: Modernity's Primal BirthingMark Deggan9 Ernest Hemingway: Global American ModernistLisa Tyler10 William Faulkner and the World Literature Debate: Is the Radical in Radical Form the Radical in Radical Politics?Hosam M. Aboul-Ela11 Miguel Angel Asturias and the Literature of the IndigenismoRené Prieto12 Borges in the World, the World in BorgesDaniel Balderston13 R.K. Narayan: The Elusive World of MalgudiNicholas Grene14 Patrick White: Creating "a Race Possessed with Understanding"Cynthia vanden Driesen15 Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: "To Become One, and Yet Many"Lena M. Hill16 "Standing in a Doorway Looking": Doris Lessing's Transnational ReadingsAlice Ridout17 Gabriel García Márquez and the Worlding of Latin American LiteratureIlan Stavans18 Roberto Bolaño, Solar Anus of World LiteratureHéctor Hoyos19 Bridge Essay: Modern Poetry as a Global PhenomenonChristopher Lupke20 Opened Subjects, Opened Worlds: Rainer Maria Rilke, Vulnerability, and World-MakingHannah Vandegrift Eldridge21 "It's Early to Rejoice": Vladimir Mayakovsky's RevolutionsJames H. McGavran III22 Reading Cavafy Writing: The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy and the "World" in "World Literature"Mary N. Layoun23 Fernando Pessoa, Singular Modernity, and World LiteraturePaulo de Medeiros24 Federico García Lorca: Mediating Tradition and Modernity for a World AudienceRoberta Ann Quance25 Colonial Modernism and Inverted Subjectivity: The Paradoxes of the Mirror in the Writings of Yi SangHyun Seon Park26 T.S. Eliot and Modernist TranslationJohn D. Morgenstern27 Wisùawa Szymborska and the Limits of World LiteratureClare Cavanagh28 Forugh Farrokhzad and Her MadnessLeila Rahimi Bahmany29 Bridge Essay: Modern Drama: A Multidimensional Live Form of World LiteratureMary Luckhurst30 August Strindberg's Exilic ModernityEszter Szalczer31 Yearning for the "West": Osanai Kaoru and the Concept of Stand-Alone Dramas in Modern JapanMaki Isaka32 How Bertolt Brecht Managed to Forge a Defamiliarized World TheaterMary Luckhurst33 Samuel Beckett and World Literature: Toward the UniversalYoshiki Tajiri34 "And I Have the Same Restlessness Today": Vijay Tendulkar's Connected ReadingSai Bhatawadekar35 Wole Soyinka: Art, Politics, and the (African) WorldTaylor A. Eggan36 Sa'dallah Wannous: Syria's Premier Political Playwright and Social CriticRobert MyersIndex