As teachers and readers expand the canon of world literature to include writers whose voices traditionally have been silenced by the dominant culture, fundament

The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of ot

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Weltliteratur in 1827 to describe the growing availability of texts from other nations. Although the term "