World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this

"The introductions in this anthology are meant to be just that: a basic overview of what students need to know before they begin reading, with topics that stude

By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale C

World Literature is an increasingly influential subject in literary studies, which has led to the re-framing of contemporary ideas of ‘national literatures’

The rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century. However, truly well-known and globally circulati