Epigraphs:
And the attribute of all true art, the highest and the lowest, is this - that it says more than it says, and takes you away from yourself. –- Olive Schreiner The Story of an African Farm
[World] literature is not an infinite, ungraspable canon of works but rather a mode of circulation and of reading, a mode that is as applicable to individual works as to bodies of material, available for reading established classics and new discoveries alike. –- David Damrosch What Is World Literature?