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Teaching World Literature
ISBN: 9781603290333 | 1603290338
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer
Pub. Date: 3/31/2009
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| 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 | ... MORE
| 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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