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Informationen zum Autor Ken Seigneurie is Professor of World Literature at Simon Fraser University. He has published works on modern Arabic, French and British fiction, literary theory, and the history of humanist thought. Wiebke Denecke is Professor of East Asian Literatures and Comparative Literature at Boston University. Her research interests include premodern literature and thought of the Sinographic Sphere (China, Japan, Korea), comparative studies of East Asia and the premodern world, world literature, and the politics of cultural heritage and memory. Christine Chism is Professor of English at UCLA, after holding positions at Rutgers University and Allegheny College. Between 2003 and 2005, she was the recipient of a New Directions Mellon fellowship to learn Arabic and study Islamic societies, and she teaches and publishes on the interconnections of premodern cultures, issues of race and gender, and the uses of literary history and fantasy. Ilaria L.E. Ramelli is Professor of Theology and K. Britt Chair in Christology at the Graduate School of Theology, SHMS (St. Thomas Aquinas University 'Angelicum'). She specializes in ancient, late antique, and early medieval philosophy and theology. Christopher Lupke is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, and Chair of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. He specializes in the study of modern Chinese literature and cinema, with particular emphasis on Taiwan and Sinophone culture. Evan Nicoll-Johnson is an instructor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. He studies early medieval Chinese literature and culture, with research interests that include poetic and narrative literature of the Northern and Southern dynasties, and the history of books and bibliographic scholarship. Frieda Ekotto is Professor of Afro-American and African Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. As an intellectual historian and philosopher with areas of expertise in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone and Francophone literature and in the cinema of West Africa and its diaspora, she concentrates on contemporary issues of law, race, and LGBTQI+ issues. Abigail E. Celis is an Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State University in the departments of French and Francophone Studies and African Studies. Her research and teaching center on race and gender in the creative and critical expression of the sub-Saharan African diaspora in France, spanning a range of primary sources that include visual art, literature, cinema, and museum practices. B. Venkat Mani is Professor of German and Director of the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research and teaching focus on nineteenth- to twenty-first-century German literature and culture, migrants and refugees in the German and European contexts, book and digital cultural histories, world literature, and theories of cosmopolitanism, globalization, postcolonialism, and transnationalism. Klappentext A Companion to World Literature is a far-reaching and sustained study of key authors, texts, and topics from around the world and throughout history. Six comprehensive volumes present essays from over 300 prominent international scholars focusing on many aspects of this vast and burgeoning field of literature, from its ancient origins to the most modern narratives.Almost by definition, the texts of world literature are unfamiliar; they stretch our hermeneutic circles, thrust us before unfamiliar genres, modes, forms, and themes. They require a greater degree of attention and focus, and in turn engage our imagination in new ways. This Companion explores texts within their particular cultural context, as well as their ability to speak to readers in other contexts, demonstrating the ways in which world literature ...
List of contents
Volume 1: Third Millenium bceto 600 ce
General Introduction: The Companion to World Literature ... For Those Who Yearn
Ken Seigneurie
Introduction to World Literature: Third Millennium bce to 600 ce
Wiebke Denecke
1 Bridge Essay: The Ethical Turn
Luke Clossey
2 The Invisible World of the Rigveda
Caley Charles Smith
3 The Gathas, a Forgotten Masterpiece
Prods Oktor Skjærvø
4 "Transcending the World" in World Literature: The Upanishads
Steven E. Lindquist
5 The TaNaKH and the Canons of Alexandria
Armin Lange
6 Echoes of the Classics in the Voice of Confucius
Mark Csikszentmihalyi
7 Plato's Symposium: Eros, Beauty, and Metaphysical Desire
Andrea Nightingale
8 Aristotle's Virtue Ethics
John Bowin
9 The Gospel in Ancient Mediterranean Context
Alicia J. Batten
10 Bridge Essay: Origins and Transformations: Tactics of Storying and World-Making
Lowell Gallagher
11 The Cultural Role of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in China and Beyond
Richard J. Smith
12 Teachings of the Venerable Masters: Laozi and the Daode jing
Louis Komjathy
13 Hesiod's Theogony: From Family Violence to Civic Order
Stephen Scully
14 Herodotus and His Readers: From Thucydides to the Present
David Branscome
15 Ovid's Metamorphoses: Changing Worlds
Genevieve Liveley
16 Apuleius and The Golden Ass: Latin Novel, Universal Folktale, or Emblem of Globalized Literature?
Véronique Gély
17 Apocalyptic Literature in the Global Imagination
Lorenzo DiTommaso
18 Gnostic Myths
Mark Edwards
19 Bridge Essay: Shifting Paradigms in Orality, Literacy, and Literature
Elizabeth Minchin
20 The Septuagint as World Literature
Jan Joosten
21 Origen of Alexandria: Christian Philosophy of Freedom
Alfons Fürst
22 Making the Bible World Literature: The Vulgate and Ancient Versions
Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
23 Kumarajiva: "Great Man" and Cultural Event
Rafal Felbur
24 Contextualizing the Babylonian Talmud: The Roman East and Mesopotamian Christianity
Richard Kalmin
25 Bridge Essay: Superhuman Humans: Heroes and Heroines
D.A. Miller
26 Gilgamesh: A Cultural Seismograph
Theodore Ziolkowski
27 Sinuhe: A Fugitive from Ancient Egypt
Roland Enmarch
28 Mahabharata: Brahmins, Kings, and the South Asian Social World
Luther Obrock
29 The First Poem: Valmiki's Ramayana and the Literary World of Southern Asia
Robert P. Goldman
30 Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: Poems of Many Turnings
Richard P. Martin
31 Aeschylus, Oresteia: Revenge, Justice, Gender, and Democracy
Alan H. Sommerstein
32 Sophocles: Greek Poet, World Classic
P.J. Finglass
33 Euripidean Tragedy: Between Myth and Individuation
Justina Gregory
34 Nine Songs, Li sao, and Qu Yuan: The Ancient Art of Misreading
Gopal Sukhu
35 Sima Qian and the "Creation" of China
Stephen Durrant
36 Vergil's Aeneid: From Defeated Trojans to Imperial Romans
Christine Perkell
37 Augustine's Confessions: Beyond Aesthetics, Ethics, and Cosmopolitanism
Karla Pollmann
38 Heliodorus' Aithiopika: The Birth of the Novel
David Konstan
39 Bridge Essay: From Epic to Lyric
David Konstan
40 The Making of a Chinese Critical System: Liu Xie's Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Wenxin diaolong)
Zong-qi Cai and Xiaohui Zhang
41 Renewal in and Through Landscape: The Great Medieval Chinese Poet Xie Lingyun
Meow Hui Goh
42 Sappho(s)
Page duBois
43 We Are the World: Subjectivity and Univ
