Machine generated contents note: Introduction.PART I: ROADMAPS:1. Rey Chow.A Discipline of Tolerance.2. David Ferris.Why Compare?3. David Palumbo-Liu.Method an d Congruity.4. Haun Saussy.Comparisons, World Literature, an d the Common Denominator.5. Kenneth Surin.Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy.PART II. THEORETICAL DIRECTIONS:6. Stathis Gourgouris.The Poiein of Secular Criticism.7. Eric Hayot.Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China an d the West.8. Efrain Kristal.Art an d Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman an d Yves Michaud.9. Michael Lucey.A Literary Object's Contextual Life.10. Sharon Marcus.The Theater of Comparative Literature.PART III: DISCIPLINARY INTERSECTIONS:11. Jorge Coronado.What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual an d Literary Practices in Latin America.12. Richard Maxwell an d Toby Miller.If there's a text in this class, where did it come from? Or, what does Marilyn Monroe have to do with The Sorrows of Young Man Werther?13. Todd Presner.Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline.14. Zo e Norridge.Comparing pain: theoretical explorations of suffering an d working towards the particular.15. Gis ele Sapiro.Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature.PART IV: LINGUISTIC TRAJECTORIES:16. Cathy Caruth.Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature an d History.17. Simon Gikandi.Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, an d the Challenge of Locality.18. Mary Louise Pratt.Comparative Literature an d the Global Languagescape.19. Nasrin Rahimieh.Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature.20. Mireille Rosello.Rudimentariness as home.PART V: POSTCOLONIAL MOBILITIES:21. Allison Crumly an d Dominic Thomas.Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields an d New Directions.22. David Theo Goldberg.The Comparative an d the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method.23. Deborah Jenson.Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy an d the Nation/Novel Analogy.24. Fran coise Lionnet.Counterpoint an d Double Critique in Edward Said an d Abdelkebir Khatibi:A Transcolonial Comparison.25. David Murphy.How French Studies became Transnational; Or postcolonialism as comparatism.26. Sangeeta Ray.Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial an d American Imaginative Eco-Graphies.PART VI: GLOBAL CONNECTIONS:27. Emily Apter.Terrestrial Humanism: Edward W. Said an d the Politics of World Literature.28. Brian T. Edwards.Logics an d Contexts of Circulation.29. Charles Forsdick."Worlds in Collision:" The Languages an d Locations of World Literature.30. Graham Huggan.The Trouble with World Literature.