6. Love and Country: Allegorical Romance in Latin America

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Reading World Literature 1
5. Part I. Initial Perspectives: Teaching the Unfamiliar; Locating Canonical Values
6. Introduction 66
7. 1. Misunderstanding Poetry: Teaching outside the Western Canon 69
8. 2. Classical Criticism and the Canon, or, Why Read the Ancient Critics? 87
9. Part 2. Canonical Variations: Working with Texts and Their Countertexts
10. Introduction 114
11. 3. Men Working: Community under Construction 118
12. 4. Playing Caliban: Cesaire's Tempest 136
13. 5. Celtic Literature and the European Canon 160
14. 6. Love and Country: Allegorical Romance in Latin America 177
15. 7. Reading Genres across Cultures: The Example of Autobiography 203
16. Part 3. Languages of Community: Reading the Language(s) of the Text
17. Introduction 238
18. 8. The Many "Worlds" in World Literature: Pound and Waley as Translators of Chinese 241
19. 9. Under the Palimpsest and Beyond: The World, the Reader, and the Text in the Nigerian Novel in English 267
20. Part 4. Literacies: Patterns of Understanding
21. Introduction 284
22. 10. The Phonograph behind the Door: Some Thoughts on Musical Literacy 287
23. 11. Informing Adult Readers: Symbolic Experience in Children's Literature 309
24. 12. In the Canon's Mouth: Being Lucid about the Local 328
25. Contributors 351
26. Index 355