In the age of globalization, the category of "World Literature" is increasingly important to academic teaching and research. The Routledge Companion to World Literature offers a comprehensive pathway into this burgeoning and popular field.

Table of Contents

• Notes on contributors
• Preface: Weltliteratur, littérature universelle, vishwa sahitya ... - THEO D'HAEN, DAVID DAMROSCH AND DJELAL KADIR
• PART I The historical dimension
• 1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: origins and relevance of Weltliteratur - JOHN PIZER
• 2 Hugo Meltzl and “the principle of polyglottism” - DAVID DAMROSCH
• 3 Georg Brandes: the telescope of comparative literature - SVEND ERIK LARSEN
• 4 Richard Moulton and the “perspective attitude” in world literature - SARAH LAWALL
• 5 Rabindranath Tagore’s comparative world literature - BHAVYA TIWARI
• 6 Richard Meyer’s concept of world literature - MONIKA SCHMITZ-EMANS
• 7 Albert Guérard: reworking humanism for a troubled century - DOMINIQUE VAUGEOIS
• 8 Erich Auerbach and the death and life of world literature - AAMIR R. MUFTI
• 9 Qian Zhongshu as comparatist - ZHANG LONGXI
• 10 René Etiemble: defense and illustration of a “true literary comparatism” - SAMIRA SAYEH
• 11 Dionýz Ďurišin and a systemic theory of world literature - CÉSAR DOMÍNGUEZ
• 12 Claudio Guillén: (world) literature as system - DARÍO VILLANUEVA
• 13 Edward W. Said: the worldliness of world literature - JONATHAN ARAC
• 14 Pascale Casanova and the Republic of Letters - HELENA CARVALHÃO BUESCU
• 15 Franco Moretti and the global wave of the novel - MADS ROSENDAHL THOMSEN
• PART II The disciplinary dimension
• 16 World literature and philology - MICHAEL HOLQUIST
• 17 World literature and national literature(s) - JING TSU
• 18 World literature and comparative literature - SANDRA BERMANN
• 19 World literature and translation studies - LAWRENCE VENUTI
• 20 World literature between history and theory - VILASHINI COOPPAN
• 21 World literature and postmodernism - HANS BERTENS
• 22 World literature and postcolonialism - ROBERT J.C. YOUNG
• 23 World literature and globalization - ERIC HAYOT
• 24 World literature and diaspora studies - JASON FRYDMAN
• 25 World literature and cosmopolitanism - CÉSAR DOMÍNGUEZ
• PART III The theoretical dimension
• 26 Teaching worldly literature - MARTIN PUCHNER
• 27 The canon(s)of world literature - PETER CARRAVETTA
• 28 The great books - JOHN T. KIRBY
• 29 Bibliomigrancy: book series and the making of world literature - B. VENKAT MANI
• 30 World literature and the internet - THOMAS O. BEEBEE
• 31 World literature and the library - REINGARD NETHERSOLE
• 32 World literature and the book market - ANN STEINER
• 33 World literature, francophonie, and Creole cosmopolitics - FRANÇOISE LIONNET
• 34 World literature and popular literature: toward a wordless literature? - JAN BAETENS
• 35 The genres of world literature: the case of magical realism - MARIANO SISKIND
• 36 The poetics of world literature - ZHANG LONGXI
• 37 The ethics of world literature - PETER HITCHCOCK
• 38 The politics of world literature - SANJA BAHUN
• 39 Uses of world literature - BRUCE ROBBINS
• 40 Gender and sexuality in world literature - DEBRA A. CASTILLO
• 41 World literature and the environment - URSULA K. HEISE
• 42 Mapping world literature - THEO D'HAEN
• PART IV The geographical dimension
• 43 World literature and European literature - ROBERTO M. DAINOTTO
• 44 World literature and Latin American literature - DJELAL KADIR
• 45 World literature and US American literature - LAWRENCE BUELL
• 46 African roads - NIRVANA TANOUKHI
• 47 World literature and East Asian literature - RED CHAN
• 48 Constructions of world literature in colonial and postcolonial India - VINAY DHARWADKER
• 49 The Thousand and One Nights as world literature - SANDRA NADDAFF
• 50 World literature and Muslim Southeast Asia - RONIT RICCI