The Routledge Companion to World Literature

Edited by an international team of three well‐respected academics (working in Belgium, and the US) The Routledge Companion to World Literature is an impressive resource. Appropriately, the contributors are representative of a variety of expertises and work all over the globe. The companion is divided into four sections each dealing with a different “dimension” of World Literature: the historical, the disciplinary, the theoretical, and the geographical. In total, there are 48 contributions.

In the first section, the reader is introduced to the concept of “world literature” through the works of theorists, and literary figures comprising Goethe, Tagore, Auberbach, Said, and...