A Companion to Comparative Literature -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Roadmaps -- 1: A Discipline of Tolerance -- 2: Why Compare? -- 3: Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative Literature -- 4: Comparisons, World Literature, and the Common Denominator -- 5: Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy -- Part II: Theoretical Directions -- 6: The Poiein of Secular Criticism -- 7: Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West -- 8: Art and Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud -- 9: A Literary Object's Contextual Life -- 10: The Theater of Comparative Literature -- Part III: Disciplinary Intersections -- 11: What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America -- 12: 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: Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline -- 14: Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working Towards the Particular -- 15: Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature -- Part IV: Linguistic Trajectories -- 16: Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature and History -- 17: Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality -- 18: Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape -- 19: Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature -- 20: Rudimentariness as Home -- Part V: Postcolonial Mobilities -- 21: Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions -- 22: The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method.

23: Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy -- 24: Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial Comparison -- 25: How French Studies Became Transnational -- Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism -- 26: Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative Eco-Graphies -- Part VI: Global Connections -- 27: Terrestrial Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature -- 28: Logics and Contexts of Circulation -- 29: "Worlds in Collision:" The Languages and Locations of World Literature -- 30: The Trouble with World Literature -- Index.