Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Transliteration -- INTRODUCTION -- Of Words and Worlds -- Literary Modernity in Colonial Egypt -- Reading Beyond Representation -- The Moral Universe of a Secular World -- A User's Guide -- 1 WORLD The World …
We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of world literatur…
