If event is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes crises transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of reading literature. As the event continues to provide a valuable analytical paradigm for work undertaken within the newer subdisciplines of literary and critical theory including close reading bio- politics world literature and eco- criticism this volume makes a concerted effort to update the scholarship in this area and foreground the recent resurgence of interest in the concept. The book provides both a retrospective appraisal of the significance of events to literary studies and the literary humanities as well as contemporary and prospective appraisals of the same and thus would appeal scholars and instructors in the areas of literary theory comparative literature and philosophical aesthetics alike. Along with a specialist focus on thinkers such as Derrida Badiou Deleuze and Malabou the essays in this volume read a wide corpus of literature ranging from Han Kang Homer Renee Gladman Proust and Flaubert to Yoruba ideophones Browning Anne Carson Jenichiro Oyabe and Ben Lerner. | Literature and Event Twenty-First Century Reformulations