Preface Acknowledgments Acknowledgments Introduction: Thinking across Continents Introduction Continued: The Idiosyncrasy of the Literary Text PART I The Matter and Mattering of Literature Chapter 1. Making Sahitya Matter Chapter 2. Literature Matters Today PART II: Poem and Poetry Chapter 3. The Story of a Poem Chapter 4. Western Theories of Poetry: Reading Wallace Stevens's "The Motive for Metaphor" PART III: Literature and the World Chapter 5. More Than Global Chapter 6. Globalization and World Literature PART IV: Teaching Literature Chapter 7. Reinventing the Teaching Machine: Looking for a Text in an Indian Classroom Chapter 8. Should We Read or Teach Literature Now? PART V: Ethics and Literature Chapter 9. The Ethics of Reading Sahitya Chapter 10. Literature and Ethics: Truth and Lie in Framley Parsonage Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
