Introduction

what is world literature?

Weigui Fang

1-64

Comparative literature and world literature

from Goethe to globalization

Bernard Franco

65-75

The location of world literature

Galin Tihanov

77-91

Frames for world literature

David Damrosch

93-112

World literature and the encounter with the other

a means or a menace?

William Franke

113-146

Some remarks on the concept of World literature after 2000

Marian Gálik

147-169

World literature, canon, and literary criticism

Zhang Longxi

171-190

Four perspectives on world literature

reader, producer, text and system

Matthias Freise

191-205

A world of translation

Philippe Ratte

207-218

World literature in graphic novels and graphic novels as world literature

Monika Schmitz-Emans

219-238

Experiments in cultural connectivity

early Twentieth-century German-Jewish thought meets the Daodejing

Peter Fenves

239-251

Ideographic myth and misconceptions about Chinese poetic art

Cai Zongqi

253-264

Chinese literature as part of world literature

Karl-Heinz Pohl

265-286

How to become world literature

Chinese literature's aspiration and way to "step into the world"

Liu Hongtao

287-299

World literature from and in China

Wolfgang Kubin

301-310