Acknowledgements
Introduction: The (Re)Turn of World Literature
Chapter 1. Naming World Literature
Chapter 2. Goethe’s Weltliteratur and The Humanist Ideal
Chapter 3. World Literature and Comparative Literature
Chapter 4. World Literature as an American Pedagogical Construct
Chapter 5. World Literature in European Academe
Chapter 6. World Literature as System
Chapter 7. World Literature and Translation
Chapter 8. World Literature, (Post)Modernism, (Post)Colonialism, Littérature-Monde, Decoloniality
Chapter 9. Asian, African, and Oceanian Perspectives on World Literature
Chapter 10. World Literature and Planetary Materialities
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Theo D’haen is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Leuven University and Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at Leiden University. He has published widely on (post)modernism, (post)colonialism, and world literature. His publications include World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics (2021) and The Routledge Companion to World Literature, Second Edition (co-edited with David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir; Routledge, 2022).
