Acknowledgements Timothy Mathews: Foreword Part I: Provocation Dragana Obradović: Introduction Helena Carvalhão Buescu: Comparativism as Wounds of Possibility Ksenia Robbe: Comparison as Translation: The Possibility of the Comparative Study of South African Literatures Marta Pacheco Pinto: Oriental Paradises at the Crossroads of Cultural Translation Angela Becerra Vidergar: Uncanny Encounters: Face to Face with “Failed” Assimilation David Muino Barreiro: European Travel Writing, Imperialist Discourses and Analogy in Nineteenth-Century Argentinian Literature Marian Halls: “The Bone that Writes”: Desaparecidos and the Disappearance of Literature Patrick ffrench: The Idiom of the Other Kirsty Black: Representation and Re-Presentation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens and David Jones Part II: Negotiation Gesche Ipsen: Introduction Sarah Kay: Allegory and Melancholy in Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Christine de Pizan Margarita García Candeira : Psychoanalysis and Literary Tradition: The “Anxiety of Influence” in Luis Garcia Montero’s Reformulation of Rafael Alberti Karolien Vermeulen: Lost/Lasting in Translation: What Happened to the Laughing Isaac (Genesis 17-26) Heiða Jóhannsdóttir: The Inflected Text: Hindle Wakes and Its Film Adaptations Denis Simon: Twentieth-Century Dramatizations of the Trials of Oscar Wilde Dennis Kersten: Henry James and the Death of the Biographer: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach to the Writing of Lives Michiel Nys: Evolution and Agnosticism: Thomas Henry Huxley, Julian Huxley, and Richard Dawkins Valérie Macken: Matthew Arnold and the Use of Comparison Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Afterword: “Cutting Edge” – Why It Matters and Where It Is Now Notes on Contributors Index