Literature and the World

Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English Literary Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden.Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark.

• Introduction: Why World Literature? Stefan Helgesson and Mads Rosendahl Thompson 1. Paradigms: World Literature and Its Others Mads Rosendahl Thompson 2. Ecologies of literature: The Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Nexus Stefan Helgesson 3. Genre: Strangeness and Familiarity Mads Rosendahl Thompson 4. Geography: Reading the Oceans Stefan Helgesson 5. Media and method: The Digital Library of Babel Mads Rosendahl Thompson 6. Translation: Duration and Cosmopolitan Reading Stefan Helgesson 7. Unfinished Business: A Dialogue Stefan Helgesson and Mads Rosendahl Thompson