The World of Literature

by James W. Earl

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0134391594
• ISBN13: 9780134391595
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 2252 Pages
• Weight: 4.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Whole World's Worth of Literature

The World of Literature / 0-13-439159-4 This is a fantastic anthologies, and a wonderful addition to any private library. Many of the works included here are distinctly non-Western/European and, instead, the authors have taken the time and effort to include literature from the parts of the world most frequently neglected by literature courses. Indian literature, Chinese literature, even Maya literature is included here, with translations that are fluid and easy to read and understand, and treated with the respect and awe that these works deserve. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. ANCIENT LITERATURE: ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA AND EGYPT - Descent of Inanna - Epic of Gilgamesh - Egyptian Poetry - Hebrew Bible ANCIENT LITERATURE: ANCIENT INDIA - Asvaghosha - Bhagavad-Gita - Mahabharata - Ramayana of Valmiki - Rig Veda - Upanishads - Vimalakirti Sutra ANCIENT LITERATURE: ANCIENT CHINA - Book of Songs - Confucius - Han Dynasty Poetry - Laozi - Mozi - Qu Yuan - Sima Qian - Zhuangzi ANCIENT LITERATURE: ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME - Catullus - Euripides - Greek Bible - Hesiod - Homer - Horace - Ovid - Pindar - Plato - Sappho - Thucydides - Virgil MIDDLE PERIOD LITERATURE: MIDDLE EAST - Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi - Abu Abdallah Ibn Battutah - Arabic Poetry - Book of Dede Korkut - Farid Al-Din Attar - Muhammad Ibn Ishaq - Persian Poetry - Qasidahs - Quran - Thousand and One Night - Usamah Ibn Munqidh MIDDLE PERIOD LITERATURE: INDIA - Bhakti Poetry - Kalidasa - Vidyakara MIDDLE PERIOD LITERATURE: CHINA - Gan Bao - Lotus Sutra - Song Poetry - Tang Poetry - Tao Qian - Wu Cheng'en - Yuan Zhen MIDDLE PERIOD LITERATURE: JAPAN - Court Poetry - Izumi Shikibu - Kamo No Chomei - Kojiki - Manyoshu - Murasaki Shikinu - No Theatre - Tales of the Heiki MIDDLE PERIOD LITERATURE: KOREA - Cho'oe Ch'i-Won - Ho Nansorhon - Hwang Chin-i - Hyangga - Songs of Flying Dragons MIDDLE PERIOD LITERATURE: EUROPE - Abelard - Alighieri, Dante - Augustine - Bede - Chaucer, Geoffrey - de Cervantes, Miguel - de France, Marie - de Montaigne, Michel - de Pizan, Christine - More, Thomas - Norse Literature - Petrarch, Francis - Polo, Marco - Shakespeare, William MODERN LITERATURE: MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA - Achebe, Chinua (Nigeria) - Amichai, Yehuda (Israel) - Bakr, Salwz (Egypt) - Mahfouz, Naguib (Egypt) - Ogot, Grace (Kenya) - Senghor, Leopold Sedar (Senegal) - Soyinka, Wole (Nigeria) - Tuqan, Fadwa (Palestine) MODERN LITERATURE: INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA - Kalayaanaphong, Angkarn (Thailand) - Nguyen, Huy Thiep (Vietnam) - Rushdie, Salman (India) - Seth, Rajee (India) - Tagore, Rabindranath (India) MODERN LITERATURE: CHINA - Cao Xueqin - Ding Ling - Lu Xun - Shen Fu MODERN LITERATURE: JAPAN - Abe Kobo - Kawabata Yasunari - Matsuo Basho - Natsume Soseki - Oba Minako MODERN LITERATURE: KOREA - Suno Hwi MODERN LITERATURE: EUROPE - Akhmatova, Anna (Russia) - Austen, Jane (England and Ireland) - Beckett, Samuel (England and Ireland) - Baudelaire, Charles (France) - de Sevigne, Madame (Fra

A Refreshing Change

Academic anthologies of world literature often cater to the professoriate in English departments who only have a passing knowledge of non-western literature. As a result, many collections of world literature are, in fact, collections of European literary classics, thereby allowing professors to simply walk through lower division classes without having to do much work. _A World of Literature_, however, places non-Western literature at the core of the collection, allowing teachers and students to really challenge themselves in the enjoyment of global perspectives. The works selected for inclusion are generally canonical within their cultural contexts and are made comprehensible by the fine introductions.