Preface -- The Four Genealogies of "World Literature" -- World Literature and Language Anxiety -- Auerbach's Dante: Poetical Theology as a Point of Departurefor a Philology of World Literature -- Beyond Spatiality: Theorising the Local and Untranslatability as Comparative Critical Method -- Global Scripts and the Formation of Literary Traditions -- Codes for World Literature: Network Theory and the Field Imaginary -- The Actual and the Imagined: Perspectives and Approaches in Indian Classical Poetics -- On Bookstores, Suicides, and the Global Marketplace: East Asia in the Context of World Literature -- Shifting Borders in Contemporary Japanese Literature:Toward a Third Vision -- Some Remarks on World Literature -- Notes on Contributors.