Part I. Historical dimension. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : origins and relevance of Weltliteratur / John Pizer
Hugo Meltzl and "the principle of polyglottism" / David Damrosch
Georg Brandes : the telescope of comparative literature / Svend Erik Larsen
Richard Moulton and the "perspective attitude" in world literature / Sarah Lawall
Rabindranath Tagore's comparative world literature / Bhavya Tiwari
Richard Meyer's concept of world literature / Monika Schmitz-Emans
Albert Guérard : reworking humanism for a troubled century / Dominique Vaugeois
Erich Auerbach and the death and life of world literature / Aamir R. Mufti
Qian Zhongshu as comparatist / Zhang Longxi
René Etiemble : defense and illustration of a "true literary comparatism" / Samira Sayeh
Dionýz Ďurišim and a systemic theory of world literature / César Domínguez
Claudio Guillén : (world) literature as system / Darío Villanueva
Edward W. Said : the worldliness of world literature / Jonathan Arac
Pascale Casanova and the Republic of Letters / Helena Carvalhão Buescu
Franco Moretti and the global wave of the novel / Mads Rosendahl Thomsen


Part II. The disciplinary dimension. World literature and philology / Michael Holquist
World literature and national literature(s) / Jing Tsu
World literature and comparative literature / Sandra Bermann
World literature and translation studies / Lawrence Venuti
World literature between history and theory / Vilashini Cooppan
World literature and postmodernism / Hans Bertens
World literature and postcolonialism / Robert J.C. Young
World literature and globalization / Eric Hayot
World literature and diaspora studies / Jason Frydman
World literature and cosmopolitanism / César Domínguez


Part III. The theoretical dimension. Teaching worldly literature / Martin Puchner
The canon(s) of world literature / Peter Carravetta
The great books / John T. Kirby
Bibliomigrancy : book series and the making of world literature / B. Venkat Mani
World literature and the internet / Thomas O. Beebee
World literature and the library / Reingard Nethersole
World literature and the book market / Ann Steiner
World literature, francophonie, and Creole cosmopolitics / Françoise Lionnet
World literature and popular literature : toward a wordless literature? / Jan Baetens
The genres of world literature : the case of magical realism / Mariano Siskind
The poetics of world literature / Zhang Longxi
The ethics of world literature / Peter Hitchcock
The politics of world literature Sanja Bahun
Uses of world literature / Bruce Robbins
Gender and sexuality in world literature / Debra A. Castillo
World literature and the environment / Ursula K. Heise
Mapping world literature / Theo D'Haen


Part IV. The geographical dimension. World literature and European literature / Roberto M. Dainotto
World literature and Latin American literature / Djelal Kadir
World literature and US American literature / Lawrence Buell
African roads / Nirvana Tanoukhi
World literature and East Asian literature / Red Chan
Constructions of world literature in colonial and postcolonial India / Vinay Dharwadker
The thousand and one nights as world literature / Sandra Naddaff
World literature and Muslim Southeast Asia / Ronit Ricci.