Humanitarian Scripts in the World Novel

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Series editor’s preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Contributors xiii
6. Worldmaking 1
7. Part I: Case Studies in Time: Towards a Poetics of Worldmaking
8. New worlds in Lanval and Sir Launfal 15
9. Women’s Worldmaking in the subtext of Malory’s Morte D’Arthur 31
10. Unsilencing Elizabeth Cary 41
11. The Wor(l)d-Making of Centenarian Poets 55
12. All the Presidents’ poems 67
13. Part II: Reconfiguring Boundaries: Philosophy, Literature, and Worldmaking in the Arts
14. Of Private Selves and Public Morals 77
15. My World or Yours? Otherness and the Construction of Culture 87
16. Earthing the World 99
17. Australian Indigenous Art and Literature 107
18. Art, Detritus and Global Change 117
19. The Sadness of the City 133
20. Part III: Breaking Boundaries: Worldmaking and World Literatures
21. Katherine Mansfield and World Literature 147
22. Creating the French world of the Channel Islands in "Note Viaer Lingo" 169
23. Geocriticism and fictional worlds of Jhumpa Lahiri and Kazuo Ishiguro 179
24. Rethinking hybridity 189
25. Humanitarian Scripts in the World Novel 201
26. Bibliography 215
27. Index 229