Tensions in World Literature: Between the Local and the Universal

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
 Introduction: What Is World Literature?  (Weigui Fang)....Pages 1-64
 Comparative Literature and World Literature: From Goethe to Globalization  (Bernard Franco)....Pages 65-75
 The Location of World Literature  (Galin Tihanov)....Pages 77-91
 Frames for World Literature  (David Damrosch)....Pages 93-112
 World Literature and the Encounter with the Other: A Means or a Menace?  (William Franke)....Pages 113-146
 Some Remarks on the Concept of World Literature After 2000  (Marián Gálik)....Pages 147-169
 World Literature, Canon, and Literary Criticism  ( Zhang Longxi)....Pages 171-190
 Four Perspectives on World Literature: Reader, Producer, Text and System  (Matthias Freise)....Pages 191-205
 A World of Translation  (Philippe Ratte)....Pages 207-218
 World Literature in Graphic Novels and Graphic Novels as World Literature  (Monika Schmitz-Emans)....Pages 219-238
 Experiments in Cultural Connectivity: Early Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Thought Meets the Daodejing  (Peter Fenves)....Pages 239-251
 Ideographic Myth and Misconceptions about Chinese Poetic Art  ( Cai Zongqi)....Pages 253-264
 Chinese Literature as Part of World Literature  (Karl-Heinz Pohl)....Pages 265-286
 How to Become World Literature: Chinese Literature’s Aspiration and Way to “Step into the World”  ( Liu Hongtao)....Pages 287-299
 World Literature from and in China  (Wolfgang Kubin)....Pages 301-310
Back Matter ....Pages 311-398