1. The bibliography is extensive and the following is by no means exhaustive; useful recent examples include thePMLAdossier,“What Does the Comparative Do?”(128.3,2013); the special issue ofModern Language Quarterlytitled“What Counts as World Literature?”(74.2,2013); theNew Literary Historyissue on“Comparison”(40.3,2009); and theModernism/modernityspecial issue,“Modernism and Transnationalisms”(13.3,2006).