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Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 What Is “Literature”?
The World of the Text
The Author’s Role
Modes of Reading
What Is a Novel?
Chapter 2 Reading across Time
From Orature to Literature
The Human and the Divine
Underworld Dreams
Gathering Rosebuds
Chapter 3 Reading across Cultures
Classical Drama: Greece and India
Tragic Flaw or Fate?
Character and Plot
Scenes from Middle-class Life
From Oedipus to Elesin
Chapter 4 Reading in Translation
Imitation, Paraphrase, and Metaphrase
Comparing Translations
How Foreign Should a Translation Be?
How Do Spartans Speak?
Chapter 5 Going Abroad
Strangers in a Strange Land
Brave New Worlds
Imperial Fictions
Looking Homeward
Chapter 6 Going Global
The Glocal and the Delocalized
The Binational and the Multinational
Epilogue: Going Farther
Bibliography
Index
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