Chapter 1Tagore and His Song Offerings/ 1
Chapter 2George Bernard Shaw and His Social Critique/ 9
Chapter 3Thomas Mann and Literary Classicism/ 47
Chapter 4Pearl. S. Buck and Her Vision of China/ 93
Chapter 5William Faulkner and the American South/ 126
Chapter 6Winston Churchill and the Power of Speech/ 141
Chapter 7Earnest Hemingway and the Simplicity of Language/ 151
Chapter 8Albert Camus and the Philosophy of Absurdity/ 163
Chapter 9Toni Morrison and the Deconstruction of Cultural Myth/ 210
Chapter 10Wislawa Szymborska and Her Poetics of Daily Life/ 291
Chapter 11Mo Yan and the Artistry of Language/ 303
Chapter 12Alice Munro and “A Room of One’s Own”/ 329
Chapter 13Svetlana Alexievich and the Literariness of Reportage/ 350
