PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking across ContinentsIntroduction Continued: The Idiosyncrasy of the Literary TextPart I: The Matter and Mattering of LiteratureChapter 1. Making Sahitya MatterChapter 2. Literature Matters TodayPart II: Poem and PoetryChapter 3. The Story of a PoemChapter 4. Western Theories of Poetry: Reading Stevens''s "The Motive for Metaphor"Part III: Literature and the WorldChapter 5. More than GlobalChapter 6. Globalization and World LiteraturePart IV: Teaching LiteratureChapter 7. Reinventing the Teaching MachineChapter 8. Should We Read or Teach Literature Now?Part V: Ethics and LiteratureChapter 9. The Ethics of Reading SahityaChapter 10. Literature and Ethics: Truth and LieEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex