Introduction to Literature

With literary examples ranging from Ovid to James Joyce, Yoko Tawada, and the internet artists Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, Damrosch shows how the main strands of comparison--philology, literary theory, colonial and postcolonial studies, and the study of world literature--have long been intertwined.

Focuses on American writers whose roots are in China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East.

Comprehensive coverage of the major works and authors that make up this genre in detailed A-to-Z entries.