申論題內容
1. My claim is that world literature is not an infinite, ungraspable canon of works
but rather a mode of circulation and of reading, a mode that is as applicable to
individual works as to bodies of material, available for reading established
classics and new discoveries alike. This book is intended to explore this mode of
circulation and to clarify the ways in which works of world literature can best be
read. It is important from the outset to realize that just as there never has been a
single set canon of world literature, so too no single way of reading can be
appropriate to all texts, or even to any one text at all times. (25%)