Introduction

Sang Koo Kim and Patrick D. Murphy……..1

Traveling Literature, Traveling Theory: Literature and Cultural Contact Between East and West

Gabriele Schwab…………………………..5

The Rewards of literature, or, My Henry James

Simon During…………………………….14

The Future of Humanity as Projected in Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests

Olusegun Adekoya………………………..28

Beyond Essentialism

Gyung-ryul Jang…………………………..40

Rethinking Modernity and Religion

Vincent P. Pecora…………………………52

The Four Elements and the Recovery of Referentiality: Or, Ecocriticism as a Pivotal Localist Theory

Patrick D. Murphy…………………………70