Teaching World Literature

by Damrosch, David

• ISBN13: 9781603290333
• ISBN10: 1603290338
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-31
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Table of Contents

Introduction: All the World in the Time	p. 1
Issues and Definitions
Introduction
The West and the Rest: Frames for World Literature	p. 17
The Ethics of World Literature: Reading Others, Reading Otherwise	p. 34
Literary World-Systems	p. 44
What Is Literature? Reading across Cultures	p. 61
The Place of Difference in Cross-Cultural Literacy	p. 73
Teaching in Translation	p. 86
Program Strategies
Introduction	p. 99
Teaching World Literature in a Microcosm of the World	p. 101
Habits of Mind: Comparative Literature Meets the World	p. 110
The Afterlives of the Greeks; or, What Is the Canon of World Literature?	p. 121
Western Voices: Western World Literature in a Learning Community	p. 137
Pioneering Cross-Cultural Studies and World Literature at Illinois	p. 145
Cultural Encounters in Global Contexts: World Literature as a One-Semester General Education Course	p. 155
World Literature and the Graduate Curriculum	p. 165
"The World's Story": Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century	p. 179
Teaching Strategies
Introduction	p. 191
Major Cultures and Minor Literatures	p. 193
Conversation in Context: A Dialogic Approach to Teaching World Literature	p. 205
Writing in the Oral Tradition: Reflections on the Indigenous Literatures of Australia, New Zealand, and North America	p. 216
Weaving Women into World Literature	p. 232
Sexuality, Literature, and Human Rights in Translation	p. 246
Finding the Global in the Local: Explorations in Interdisciplinary Team Teaching	p. 258
Beyond Lecture and Discussion: The World's Oldest Approaches to Literature	p. 266
Collaborative Assignments for World Literature Survey Courses	p. 280
Courses
Introduction	p. 297
The Adventures of the Artist in World Literature: A One-Semester Thematic Approach	p. 299
American Literature and Islamic Time	p. 306
Worlds of Difference? Gay and Lesbian Texts across Cultures	p. 317
Middle Eastern Literature: An Introduction	p. 331
Cosmos versus Empire: Teaching the Remayana in a Comparative Context	p. 343
Off to Join the Online Circus: The Comic Heroic Journey of World Literature	p. 353
Imagining the Constructed Body: Prom Statues to Cyborgs	p. 362
"Literature That Changed the World": Designing a World Literature Course	p. 377
Teaching World Masterpieces through Religious Themes in Literature	p. 385
Ancient and Contemporary Texts: Teaching an Introductory Course in Non-Western Literatures	p. 393
Resources
Print Resources	p. 403
Theory of World Literature	p. 403
Anthologies, Literature Series, and Other References	p. 404
Translation Studies	p. 408
Cross-Cultural Reception and Influence	p. 409
Web Resources	p. 411
Notes on Contributors	p. 417
Index	p. 421
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