Preliminaries
Why study literature?
"What's the story??" the relevance of literature to life
The uses of the useless: comparative literature and the multinational corporation
Approaches
Macintosh apples and Mandarin oranges: discourse functions and dysfunctions in literary comparison
Cuentos chinos ("Chinese tales"): the new Chinoiseri
Cultural temptations in translation: François Cheng's francophone Cathay
The persistence of Cathay: China in world literature
A shift in cultural tectonics: challenges of geography the emergence of the southern hemisphere
A cross-cultural perspective on the modern and the postmodern
Cultural logics: the exclusive categories vs dialectical maodun
A mestizo of the mind: Maodun in the writings of Octavio Paz
The genial and congenial art of comparison prospects
The insights of the outsider: the legacy of translation as afterlife
The globalization of knowledge: comparative literature as interdisciplinary and multilingual discourse
The glocalization of knowledge: the ends of the world or the edge of heaven
The undisciplined discipline: comparative literature and creative wandering
Synergies and synaethesias: an intraworldly comparative literature.