Cultivating Learners’ Intellectual Growth and Conceptual Thinking Skills through Selected Literary Works

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Series editor’s preface ix
4. Acknowledgement xi
5. Contributors xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Languages
8. The “Minor Language” Perspective 15
9. The Language Milieu of the Old Order Amish 25
10. English – The Last Lingua franca? 43
11. National Identities and the Latin Language in Hungary and Croatia 53
12. Error and Innovation in Postcolonial Composition 67
13. Cultivating Learners’ Intellectual Growth and Conceptual Thinking Skills through Selected Literary Works 81
14. Theoretical Considerations
15. Critical Glissantism 103
16. Decolonizing World Literature 125
17. Minor and Major Readings Across Cultures 141
18. From Black Athena to Black Dionysus and Beyond? 157
19. From Minor Genre to Major Genre 171
20. World Literature / World culture? 187
21. Literatures
22. Small Presses and the Globalization of Poetry 207
23. Between “Minor” and “Major” Literatures 221
24. “The world at large … is only an expanded homeland.” 233
25. Who is the Other? Goethe’s encounter with “China” in his Concept of Weltliteratur 241
26. “Major” and “Minor” literatures 253
27. A “minor” language in a “major” literature 263
28. Index 273