本书作者兰詹·高希与希利斯·米勒，一位是印度北孟加拉大学的英文教授，一位是美国当代著名文论家和比较文学家。书的正文分为五大部分，每一部分都包含两个章节，由两位作者围绕同一话题以对话形式分别展开论述。二人就文学的本质及重要性、诗歌、世界文学、文学教学、文学伦理等话题分别阐述观点，对全球化浪潮中文学的现状与未来进行深入探讨，为文学阅读和教学提供了可供借鉴的操作范式。

Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thinking across Continents
Introduction Continued: The Idiosyncrasy of the Literary Text
PART I The Matter and Mattering of Literature
Chapter 1. Making Sahitya Matter
Chapter 2. Literature Matters Today
PART II: Poem and Poetry
Chapter 3. The Story of a Poem
Chapter 4. Western Theories of Poetry: Reading Wallace Stevens's "The Motive for Metaphor"
PART III: Literature and the World
Chapter 5. More Than Global
Chapter 6. Globalization and World Literature
PART IV: Teaching Literature
Chapter 7. Reinventing the Teaching Machine: Looking for a Text in an Indian Classroom
Chapter 8. Should We Read or Teach Literature Now?
PART V: Ethics and Literature
Chapter 9. The Ethics of Reading Sahitya
Chapter 10. Literature and Ethics: Truth and Lie in Framley Parsonage
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index