Introduction Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler; Part I. Worlds: 1. Cosmopolitanism and world literature Timothy Brennan; 2. Nation, transnationalism, and internationalism Anna Bernard; 3. Scales, systems, and meridians Ben Etherington; 4. Literary worlds and literary fields Jarad Zimbler; 5. Translation and the circuits of world literature Stefan Helgesson; 6. Scriptworlds Sowon Park; 7. Ecologies of orality Liz Gunner; Part II. Practices: 8. Lyric universality Boris Maslov; 9. On worlding tragedy Ato Quayson; 10. The novel and consciousness of labour Neil Lazarus; 11. The worldliness of graphic narrative Charlotta Salmi; 12. Short story and peripheral production Shital Pravinchandra; 13. World cinema, world literature and dialectical criticism Keya Ganguly; 14. Publishing, translating, worldmaking Chris Andrews.