The promise of language in the depths of hell: Primo Levi's Canto of Ulysses and Inferno 26
The difference between difference and otherness: Il milione of Marco Polo and Calvino's Le città invisibili
Traces of the Confucian/Mencian other: ethical moments in Sima Qian's Records of the historian
War and the Hellenic splendor of knowing: Euripides, Hölderlin, Celan
The saying, the said, and the betrayal of mercy in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
Nom de dieu, quelle race: the saying, the said, and the betrayal of charity in Mongo Beti's Le pauvre Christ de Bomba
Transcendent divinity and human responsibility in Mahfouz: "zaabalawi" and children of our alley
That you might have my witness in your poem: Valéry, the symbolist tradition, and Edgar Bowers' later blank verse.
Other others : Levinas, literature, transcultural studies by Steven Shankman. ISBN 9781438430850. Published by SUNY Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.