An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

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

The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the ‘world’ in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world

The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature