Chapter 1Tagore and His Song Offerings 1
Chapter 2George Bernard Shaw and His Social Critique 9
Chapter 3Thomas Mann and Literary Classicism 47
Chapter 4Pearl. S. Buck and Her Vision of China 93
Chapter 5William Faulkner and the American South 126
Chapter 6Winston Churchill and the Power of Speech 141
Chapter 7Earnest Hemingway and the Simplicity of Language 151
Chapter 8Albert Camus and the Philosophy of Absurdity 163
Chapter 9Toni Morrison and the Deconstruction of Cultural Myth 210
Chapter 10Wislawa Szymborska and Her Poetics of Daily Life 291
Chapter 11Mo Yan and the Artistry of Language 303
Chapter 12Alice Munro and A Room of Ones Own 329
Chapter 13Svetlana Alexievich and the Literariness of Reportage 350