Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-416) and index.

All the world in the time / David Damrosch -- Issues and definitions. Introduction ; The West and the rest: frames for world literature / Sarah Lawall ; The ethics of world literature: reading others, reading otherwise / Vilashini Cooppan ; Literary world systems / Emily Apter ; What is literature? Reading across cultures / Zhang Longki ; The place of difference in cross-cultural literacy / Anuradha Dingwaney Needham ; Teaching in translation / Lawrence Venuti -- Program strategies. Introduction ; Teaching world literature in a microcosm of the world / Kathleen L. Komar ; Habits of mind: Comparative Literature meets the world / Oscar Kenshur ; The afterlives of the Greeks; or, What is the canon of world literature / Jane O. Newman ; Western voices: western world literature in a learning community / Carol J. Luther ; Pioneering cross-cultural studies and world literature at Illinois / Michael Palencia-Roth ; Cultural encounters in global contexts: world literature as a one-semester general education course / John Burt Forster, Jr. ; World literature and the graduate curriculum / Caroline D. Eckhardt ; "The world's story": teaching literature in the twenty-first century / Collin Meissner and Margaret Doody -- Teaching strategies. Introduction ; Major cultures and minor literatures / David Damrosch ; Conversation in context: a dialogic approach to teaching world literature / Gary Harrison ; Writing in the oral tradition: reflections on the indigenous literatures of Australia, New Zealand, and North America / Elvira Pulitano ; Weaving women into world literature / Margaret R. Higonnet ; Sexuality, literature, and human rights in translation / Joseph A. Massad ; Finding the global in the local: explorations in interdisciplinary team teaching / Marjorie E. Rhine and Jeanne Gillespie ; Beyond lecture and discussion: the world's oldest approaches to literature / Thomas Beebee ; Collaborative assignments for world literature survey courses / Monika Brown

Courses. Introduction ; The adventures of the artist in world literature: a one-semester thematic approach / Carolyn Ayers ; American literature and Islamic time / Wai Chee Dimock ; Worlds of difference? Gay and Lesbian texts across cultures / Nikolai Endres ; Middle Eastern literature: an introduction / Carol Fadda-Conrey ; Cosmos versus empire: teaching the Ramayana in a comparative context / Raymond-Jean Frontain ; Off to join the online circus: the comic heroic journey of world literature / Elizabeth Horan ; Imagining the constructed body: from statues to cyborgs / Ellen Peel ; "Literature that changed the world": designing a world literature course / C.A. Prettiman ; Teaching world masterpieces through religious themes in literature / Eric Sterling ; Ancient and contemporary texts: teaching an introductory course in non-western literatures / Kathryn A. Walterschied.

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