This title offers the ideal introduction to the theories and debates surrounding world literature through extracts from the essential texts and writers in the field.
This book brings together thirty essential readings which display the theoretical foundations of the subject of world literature, as well as showing its conceptual development over a two hundred year period.--Publisher's description.
1. Global silver-gold flows : the Chinese resonance of Donne's "Unfil'd pistolets"--2. The Anyan Strait : Donne's global vision and theological cosmopolitanism -- 3. Chinese chronology and Donne's apologetic exegesis in Essayes in divinity -- 4. The resonance of Chinese antiquit…
"Though science fiction is often thought of as a Western phenomenon, the genre has long had a foothold in countries as diverse as India and Mexico. These fourteen critical essays examine both the role of science fiction in the third world and the role of the third world in scien…