This anthology comprises as many as 39 papers contributed by eminent scholars and critics of international repute on different aspects of world literature and national literatures, such as Indian literature, British literature, American literature, African literature and so on, and besides these, 39 research papers, a tanka sequence and two poems on poetry and writing. The anthology is linked to an endeavour to have a world literature society formed worldwide with a view to advocating and fostering world literature not through translation but through exchanging of ideas viewed from cultural, literary and oral perspectives on a common platform that the proposed world literature society will provide. All the contributors have contributed their papers from this point of view and Authors Press, New Delhi, India has volunteered to come forward to help translate this endeavour into reality.