Sekai wa bungaku de dekite iru: Teaching Japanese Literature as World Literature

Mapping Chinese Literature as World Literature

In his article "Mapping Chinese Literature as World Literature" Yingjin Zhang revisits the challenge of advancing Chinese literature as world literature in three steps: 1) he delineates of positions of view as proposed by Western scholars who engaged in rethinking world literature(s) in the age of globalization, 2) evaluates consequences of such a new mapping for Chinese literature and tests a ...

Literature as a World

Put differently: is it possible to find the conceptual means with which to oppose the central postulate of internal, text-based literary criticism—the total rupture between text and world? Can we propose any theoretical and practical tools that could combat the governing principle of the autonomy of the text, or the alleged independence of the linguistic sphere? To date, the answers given to th...

Teaching Journey to the West in World Literature Courses

Given the accessibility of the text, Journey to the West works well in courses in world literature, world novel, and Asian studies. Given the late 16-century date of the text, it can be taught in the middle of a one-semester World Literature course or at the end or beginning of a course in World Literature I or II. For colleges which offer only one course in world literature, Journey to the Wes...

The challenge of cybertext: teaching literature in the digital world

Teaching Literature in the Muslim World: A Bicultural Approach

Although most universities in the Muslim world publicly recognize and support the teaching of Western literature, the exploration of some Western literary themes (for example, self-determination, sexual liberation, and gender equality) is viewed negatively by authority figures as well as by some professors and students. To reconcile this concern with Lewis's view that the mutual study of litera...