An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this

The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature

*3 full-length practice tests*detailed answer explanations*proven score-raising strategies*targeted content review*key terminology defined in context*sample ess

The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the ‘world’ in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world