Longman Anthology to World Literature

The Ancient Near East

Poetry of Love and Devotion

The Song of Songs

The Epic of Gilgamesh

PERSPECTIVES: Death and Immortality

PERSPECTIVES: Strangers in a Strange Land

Classical Greece

The Odyssey

Archaic Lyric Poetry

Arkhilokhos

Sappho

Alkaios

Early South Asia

The Mahabharata of Vyasa

The Ramayana of Valmiki

China: The Classical Tradition

Rome and the Roman Empire

Medieval China

One of the central questions that underlies Vargas Llosa's as well as the indigenous authors' engagement with orature is whether it is in some ways a more authentic, more “real” and less artificial mode of expression than the written or printed word. But this question plays itself out quite differently in the Native American writers' texts, ...