Buch, Englisch, 800 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, 800 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-394-18525-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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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1. Changing the Way World Literature Is Taught by Ken Seigneurie and Paula Karger
2. Introduction to World Literature Third Millennium BCE to 1500 CE by Wiebke Denecke and Christine Chism
3. Bridge Essay: Origins and Transformations: Tactics of Storying and World-Making by Lowell Gallagher
4. Will World Literature Push the Bible into Oblivion? by Ken Seigneurie
5. The Invisible World of the Rigveda by Caley Charles Smith
6. Echoes of the Classics in the Voice of Confucius by Mark Csikszentmihalyi
7. Teachings of the Venerable Masters: Laozi and the Daode jing by Louis Komjathy
8. The Qur’an (Koran) by Terri DeYoung and Ali Mian
9. The Popol Wuj: A Colonial Context by Néstor I. Quiroa
10. Bridge Essay: Looking for Love, Finding Trouble: Reading Ancient World Literature, Passionately by Sebastian Matzner
11. Sappho(s) byPage duBois
12. The Cultural Role of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in China and Beyond by Richard J. Smith
13. Love, Politics, and the Premodern Theater: Perspectives on Kalidasa’s Shakuntala by Amanda Culp
14. “Southeast Fly the Peacocks”: An Elegy for Love from Early Medieval China by Qiulei Hu
15. Ancient Greek Tragedy in World Literature by Michael Ewans
16. Augustine’s Confessions: Beyond Aesthetics, Ethics, and Cosmopolitanism by Karla Pollmann
17. Tang Dynasty Poetry: Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu by Evan Nicoll-Johnson
18. Qasida Poetry: A World unto Itself by Adam Talib
19. Longing for Love: The Romance of Layla and Majnun by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
20. Bridge Essay: Superhuman Humans: Heroes and Heroines by D.A. Miller
21. Gilgamesh: A Cultural Seismograph by Theodore Ziolkowski
22. The First Poem: Valmiki's Ramayana and the Literary World of Southern Asia by Robert P. Goldman
23. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Poems of Many Turnings by Richard P. Martin
24. Vergil’s Aeneid: From Defeated Trojans to Imperial Romans by Christine Perkell
25. The Secular Wisdom of Kalila and Dimna by Karla Mallette
26. The Tale of the Heike: War Narrative and the Boundaries of Literature in Medieval and Modern Japan by Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger
27. The Glory and the End of the Heroic World in the Nibelungenlied by Albrecht Classen
28. Conquest and Crusade in The Epic of the Cid by Michael Harney
29. The Knight-Errant and the Good Fellow in Chinese Narrative: Water Margin and the Xia (Hero) Tradition Roland Altenburger
30. The Kebra Nagast: An Israelite–Christian Dynastic and National Epic? by Benjamin Hendrickx
31. The Sundiata Epic and the Global Literary Imaginary by James Tar Tsaaior
32. The Arab Oral Epic of the Bani Hilal Tribe: Al-Sirah al-Hilaliyyah by Susan Slyomovics
33. Bridge Essay: Gender and Representation: New Approaches to Medieval Literature by Rosemarie McGerr
34. The Tale of Genji: Showing and Telling a World by Edward Kamens
35. A Woman Flouts Expectations in the Literary World: The Case of Li Qingzhao by Ronald Egan
36. Engaging the Other More Favorably in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival by Evelyn Meyer
37. Francesco Petrarch: A Poet of “Multiple Belongings” by Jennifer Rushworth
38. Mirabai’s Poetry: The Worlding of a Hindu Woman Saint’s Dynamic Song Tradition by Nancy M. Martin
39. Walls of Inclusivity: Dante’s Divine Comedy and World Literature by Akash Kumar
40. “He Has Come, Visible and Hidden”: Jalal al-Din Rumi's Poetic Presence and Past by Matthew B. Lynch
41. Introduction to World Literature 1501-1800 by Christopher Lupke
42. Bridge Essay: The Emergence of Modernity by Eric Hayot
43. Rousseau and the Firmament of Modern Literature by Matthew W. Maguire
44. Allegory and “World” Formation in The Journey to the West by Ling Hon Lam
45. William Shakespeare: Worlds Here, There, and Elsewhere by Katherine Hennessey
46. Staging France’s Classical Theater World and Discovering Its Limits by Michèle Longino
47. Bridge Essay: The Novel: Or, the Power and Functions of Fictionality by James Phelan
48. The 1001 Nights as World Literature: Cultural Appropriation and Collaboration by Paulo Lemos Horta
49. Lust and Love in English Translation: Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone by Andrew Schonebaum
50. Cervantes: Don Quixote by Bruce R. Burningham
51. A Lash for the World: Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels by Ian Higgins
52. Voltaire: The Orient of the Enlightenment by Nicholas Cronk
53. Introduction to World Literature 1801-1900 by Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis
54. Bridge Essay: Colonial Encounters in the Worlding of Literature by Frieda Ekotto and Abigail E. Celis
55. Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Inauguration of the Modern Indian Novel by Rosinka Chaudhuri
56. From Delhi to Isfahan and Beyond: Mirza Ghalib in World Literature by Mehr Afshan Farooqi
57. Rudyard Kipling: From Lahore to the World by David Damrosch
58. “But Women Feel Just as Men Do”: Gender Rights in Nineteenth-Century World Literature by Julia McCord Chavez
59. A Persisting Unease: Joseph Conrad’s (Post)Colonial Fictions by Allan H. Simmons
60. Tagore at the Conjunction of World Literature by Tania Roy
61. Bridge Essay: Intimate Life and Romanticism by Tim Mehigan
62. Goethe’s World Literature Paradigm: From Uneasy Cosmopolitanism to Literary Modernism by John D. Pizer
63. The English Lake Poets of the World by Juan L. Sanchez
64. Jane Austen on the Global Stage by Susan Fraiman
65. Six Records of a Life Adrift: A Unique Lyrical Memoir of Late Imperial China by Graham Sanders
66. The Other Woman: Mirza Hadi Rusva’s Umrao Jan Ada and the Politics of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century India by Maryam Wasif Khan
67. Period Introduction: 1901 to the Present: Quarreling Modernitity: World Literature & the Pursuit of the Present by Mark Deggan
68. Bridge Essay: From Decolonization to Decoloniality by Amardeep Singh
69. “A Humanitarian is Always a Hypocrite”: George Orwell, Englishness, and Empires by Ben Clarke
70. World Literature, World War: Revisiting Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North by Shaden M. Tageldin
71. Indonesian Dissidence and Modern Narrative Form: Pramoedya Ananta Toer by Christopher GoGwilt
72. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A Rebel in Literature by Richard Tempest
73. Between Realism and Modernism: Chinua Achebe and the Making of African Literature by Simon Gikandi
74. Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Networks, Literary Activism, and the Production of World Literature by Kate Wallis
75. Bridge Essay: The Moral Limits of Archive: Modern Narrative in World Literature by Saikat Majumdar
76. Lu Xun's Fictional Worlds by Nicholas A. Kaldis
77. Marcel Proust: The Plasticity of a Modernist Icon by Vincent Ferré
78. Franz Kafka: Modernism, Modernity, Myth, and Religion by Manfred Engel
79. Thomas Mann: National Monument and World Author by David Horton
80. Virginia Woolf and the Rhythms of the Modern by Mark Deggan
81. Social Realism and Moral Affects: The Worlds of Munshi Premchand by Nikhil Govind
82. Kawabata Yasunari: Modernism, Memory, and Desire by Dennis Washburn
83. Ernest Hemingway: Global American Modernist by Lisa Tyler
84. William Faulkner and the World Literature Debate by Hosam M. Aboul-Ela
85. Borges in the World, the World in Borges by Daniel Balderston
86. Worlding Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing) by Nicole Huang
87. Albert Camus: Still Challenging the Status Quo by Toby Garfitt
88. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man by Lena M. Hill
89. The Writer’s Passport: Vladimir Nabokov and World Literature by Monica Manolescu
90. Gabriel García Márquez and the Worlding of Latin American Literature by Ilan Stavans
91. “Standing in a Doorway Looking”: Doris Lessing’s Transnational Readings by Alice Ridout
92. Naguib Mahfouz and World Literature by Karim Mattar
93. Toni Morrison’s Fiction: “Worlding” the Novel by Tessa Roynon
94. Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum Family: World Literature as Incursion by Christopher Lupke
95. Bridge Essay: The Learned Trowel: Poetic Particularity in the Global Age by Christopher Lupke
96. Opened Subjects, Opened Worlds: Rainer Maria Rilke, Vulnerability, and World-Making by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
97. Reading Cavafy Writing: The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy and the “World” in “World Literature” by Mary N. Layoun
98. T. S. Eliot and Modernist Translation by John D. Morgenstern
99. Pablo Neruda: World Literature and Human Rights by Marcelo Pellegrini
100. We Who Have Been Killed on Dark Paths: Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s Internationalism and World Literature by Gwendolyn S. Kirk
101. Fernando Pessoa, Singular Modernity, and World Literature by Paulo de Medeiros
102. Bridge Essay: Modern Drama: A Multidimensional Live Form of World Literature by Mary Luckhurst
103. How Bertolt Brecht Managed to Forge a Defamiliarized World Theater by Mary Luckhurst
104. Wole Soyinka: Art, Politics, and the (African) World by Taylor A. Eggan
105. Sa'Dallah Wannous: Syria’s Premier Political Playwright and Social Critic by Robert Myers
106. Teaching and Reading World Literature by Paula Karger
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