All Stories

  1. Whither world literature?

    Article • Neohelicon, March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  2. The Open Wound: Writing Diaspora in Europe

    Article • ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews, January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  3. Worlding Edward Said

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  4. Towards a Planetary Cosmodernism

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  5. European Literature and World Literature

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  6. Global Souths

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  7. Dutch, Belgian, and Flemish Literature on the World Stage

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  8. Translation and Comparative World Literature

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  9. Introduction: Geopolitics, Geoculture, World Literature

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  10. The Well-Tempered Jade Flute: a Chinese Turn in Early Twentieth-Century European Literature

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  11. Wang Ning: Sinicizing World Literature

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  12. Conclusion: Quid CompLit? Quid WorldLit?

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  13. (No) Postmodernism in the Age of World Literature?

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  14. Nation and Literature

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  15. “To be Flemish in order to become European” – August Vermeylen and Flemish Literature

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  16. Magical Realism and World Literature

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  17. Writing Afropolitan/Afropean

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  18. Sinicizing Comparative and World Literature: Cao Shunqing and Translation Studies

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  19. Preliminary Material

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  20. Empire’s Ebb

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  21. Geopolitics and World Literature

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  22. Going Caribbean, Going Global

    Article • January 2026, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  23. Translation, Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, World Literature

    Article • Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, June 2025, Hunan Normal University

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  24. World Literature, World Times, Worlds

    Article • European Review, June 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  25. Why Variation Theory Marks an Important Stage in the Study of Comparative Literature

    Article • Comparative Literature East & West, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  26. Magic Realism and World Literature

    Article • Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, December 2024, Hunan Normal University

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  27. The well-tempered jade flute: a Chinese turn in early twentieth-century European literature

    Article • Neohelicon, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  28. Comparative World Literature: Making a Case for Re/Translation

    Article • Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, June 2024, Hunan Normal University

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  29. A History of World Literature

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  30. Asian, African, and Oceanian Perspectives on World Literature

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  31. Goethe's Weltliteratur and The Humanist Ideal

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  32. Introduction

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  33. Naming World Literature

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  34. World Literature and Comparative Literature

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  35. World Literature and Planetary Materialities

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  36. World Literature and Translation

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  37. World Literature as System

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  38. World Literature as an American Pedagogical Construct

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  39. World Literature in European Academe

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  40. World Literature, (Post)Modernism, (Post)Colonialism, Littérature-Monde, Decoloniality

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  41. World Poetics?

    Article • Philosophy and Literature, April 2024, Project Muse

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  42. Geopolitics and World Literature

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  43. Quid CompLit?

    Article • Cadernos de Literatura Comparada, January 2024, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  44. Geopolitics and World Literature

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  45. Nation and Literature

    Article • November 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  46. China and World Literature Studies: Re-Orient?

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  47. Literature: A World History—the View from Europe

    Article • August 2023, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  48. Flemish Literature and World Literature

    Article • Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, March 2023, Project Muse

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  49. The Dutch Interbellum Canon

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  50. Dutch Interbellum Canons and World Literature A. Roland Holst, M. Nijhoff, J. Slauerhoff

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  51. Conclusion

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  52. Dutch-Language Literature and World Literature

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  53. J. Slauerhoff: Prose

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  54. M. Nijhoff

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  55. A. Roland Holst

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  56. J. Slauerhoff: The Poetry

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  57. Major and Minor in World Literature

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  58. European Literature and World Literature

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  59. Mapping World Literature

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  60. The Routledge Companion to World Literature

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  61. Comparing “West” and “Rest”: Beyond Eurocentrism?

    Article • Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, June 2022, Hunan Normal University

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  62. Saving Europe throughWeltliteratur: The Case of Victor Klemperer

    Article • September 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  63. Crime Fiction as World Literature ed. by Louise Nilsson, David Damrosch, and Theo D’haen

    Article • Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, September 2021, Project Muse

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  64. Brussels as Transnational Node for World Literature

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  65. Major/Minor in World Literature

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  66. Larger Than Holland: J. Slauerhoff and World Literature

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  67. Re-orient

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  68. Mapping World Literature

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  69. Why World Literature Now?

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  70. Major and Minor Players in World Literature

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  71. Adventures of Mark Twain in World Literature

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  72. Caribbean Exile into World Literature

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  73. Worlding World Literature

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  74. Victor Klemperer Saves Europe through Weltliteratur

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  75. Anglo-phone Literature as Global Literature

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  76. Whither European Literature?

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  77. Preliminary Material

    Article • June 2021, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  78. Thinking about Cosmopolitanism

    Article • Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, April 2021, Ghent University

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  79. Modern Chinese Literature and World Literature from a European Perspective

    Article • Journal of Modern Literature, January 2021, Indiana University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  80. Magical Realism

    Article • November 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  81. 2 Re-Reading Classical Approaches from a Postcolonial Perspective: Pascale Casanova, Franco Moretti, David Damrosch

    Article • September 2020, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  82. FOCUS: Through Chinese Eyes

    Article • European Review, June 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  83. James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction, Steven Powell (2016)

    Article • European Journal of American Culture, June 2020, Intellect

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  84. A Canon? Yes, But What are We Going to Do with It?

    Article • European Review, March 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  85. Re-Orient?

    Article • Comparative Literature East & West, July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  86. Afterword

    Article • Neohelicon, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  87. Literary Transnationalism(s)

    Article • January 2019, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  88. Dutch Interbellum Poetry and/as World Literature

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  89. Introduction

    Article • January 2019, Bloomsbury Academic

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  90. Foreword

    Article • Journal of World Literature, November 2018, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  91. With Chinese Characteristics

    Article • Modern Language Quarterly, September 2018, Duke University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  92. The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History

    Article • April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  93. Routes, roads and maps (of) literature

    Article • April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  94. Why Universities Better Invest in the Humanities

    Article • European Review, March 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  95. Changing Europe

    Article • February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  96. Literary and Cultural Circulation

    Article • June 2017, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  97. English-language literature in an age of globalization

    Article • Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  98. Worlding Comparative Literature: Beyond Postcolonialism

    Article • Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, January 2017, Project Muse

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  99. Capitalising (on) World Literature: Brussels as Shadow Capital of Modernity/Modernism

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  100. Worlding the Social Sciences and Humanities

    Article • European Review, April 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  101. Major/Minor in World Literature

    Article • Journal of World Literature, January 2016, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  102. Preface:

    Article • Current Pharmaceutical Analysis, November 2015, Bentham Science Publishers

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  103. Introduction

    Article • September 2015, John Benjamins

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  104. Cosmopolitanism and the Postnational

    Article • July 2015, Brill

    Cesar Dominguez, Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  105. GOING CARIBBEAN, GOING GLOBAL

    Article • January 2014, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  106. Major Histories, Minor Literatures, and World Authors

    Article • CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture, December 2013, Purdue University (bepress)

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  107. When “World Literature” Becomes “World” Literature

    Article • The Journal of English Language and Literature, December 2013, English Language and Literature Association of Korea

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  108. Writing European Literary History as Part of a World History of Literature

    Article • European Review, April 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  109. The Routledge Concise History of World Literature

    Article • March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  110. European Postmodernism: The Cosmodern Turn

    Article • Narrative, January 2013, Project Muse

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  111. The Routledge Companion to World Literature

    Article • September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  112. The Humanities under Siege?

    Article • Diogenes, February 2011, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  113. How Many Canons Do We Need? World Literature, National Literature, European Literature

    Article • January 2011, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  114. Mapping Modernism: Gaining in Translation – Martinus Nijhoff and T. S. Eliot

    Article • Comparative Critical Studies, February 2009, Edinburgh University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  115. Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain’s Modernities

    Article • January 2009, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  116. Note from the New Editor-in-Chief

    Article • European Review, February 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  117. Antique Lands, New Worlds? Comparative Literature, Intertextuality, Translation*

    Article • Forum for Modern Language Studies, January 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  118. On how not to be Lisbon if you want to be modern – Dutch reactions to the Lisbon earthquake

    Article • European Review, June 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  119. Introduction: Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing

    Article • January 2006, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  120. A History of Literature in the Caribbean

    Article • Comparative Literature, September 2005, Duke University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  121. Introduction. What the postcolonial means to us: European literature(s) and postcolonialism

    Article • European Review, January 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  122. Preliminary Material

    Article • January 2005, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  123. “Nilotic Mud”

    Article • January 2003, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  124. Introduction Générale

    Article • January 2000, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  125. General Preface

    Article • January 2000, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  126. Preface

    Article • January 2000, Brill

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  127. Article • Neohelicon, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  128. Timothy Findley’s Headhunter: Empire, and Canadian Modernity

    Article • January 1998, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  129. (Un)Writing Empire

    Article • January 1998, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  130. Oriental Prospects

    Article • January 1998, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  131. The Tempest, Now and Twenty Years After

    Article • January 1997, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  132. Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures

    Article • January 1993, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  133. Preface

    Article • January 1993, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  134. Tropes of Revolution: Introduction

    Article • January 1991, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  135. Gone with the Shield of Achilles? English and American Literature at Dutch Universities.

    Article • January 1990, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  136. Introduction

    Article • January 1990, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  137. The Dutch Byron: Byron in Dutch Translation

    Article • January 1990, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  138. Introduction: The Year 88

    Article • January 1990, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  139. Introduction

    Article • January 1990, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  140. Paul van Ostaijen's modernism: A pain that encompasses all of man's consciousness

    Article • Neophilologus, October 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  141. Introduction

    Article • January 1989, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  142. Introduction: The decline and rise of convention

    Article • January 1989, John Benjamins

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  143. Genre conventions in postmodern fiction

    Article • January 1989, John Benjamins

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  144. Introduction

    Article • January 1988, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  145. Postmodern fiction: Form and function

    Article • Neophilologus, January 1987, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  146. Introduction

    Article • January 1986, De Gruyter

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  147. Mapping world literature

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen

  148. Sherlock’s Queen Bee

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Prof. Dr. Theo D'haen