The present volume introduces new considerations on the topic of “World Literature”, penned by leading representatives of the discipline from the United Sta

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World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this

A trailblazing modernist, Gertrude Stein studied psychology at Radcliffe with William James and went on to train as a medical doctor before coming out as a lesb

This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and