World Literature: Approaches, Practices, and Pedagogy combines theoretical explorations and pedagogy to explore approaches to teaching some of the key concepts, issues, and topics in world literary studies.

Recognising the evolving, and at times contested, meanings of 'world literature', this book treats world literature as a mode of reading and one that provides opportunities to create a space for critical discussions and reflections on understanding, unpacking, and at times, challenging, some of the assumptions and practices in world literary studies. Contributors discuss a wide array of topics, including the role of translation and literary marketplace in global circulation of texts, the function, and problematics of paratexts, questions of co-authorship in transnational contexts, debates on major/minor in world literature, cosmopolitanism, and the impact of English as a lingua franca on the development of the field.

Accompanied by reading questions, individual and group exercises, as well as suggested further readings, this collection offers a practical resource for instructors and an accessible guide to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students taking world literature courses in different parts of the world.

About the Author

Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee is Associate Professor at the Department of English of the City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Charles Dickens and China: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1895-1915 (2017) and Spatial Stories and Intersecting Geographies: Hong Kong, Britain, and China, 1890-1940 (2025).

Eli Park Sorensen is Associate Professor in the English Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Postcolonial Studies and the Literary (2010), Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political (2021), and Science Fiction Film (2021).

Book Information
ISBN 9781032425900
Author Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee
Format Paperback
Page Count 222
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd