Buch, Englisch, 880 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, 880 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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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 Ngugi 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 Sa'dallah Wannous: Syria’s Premier Political Playwright and Social Critic 807
Robert Myers
Index 813
