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'Jewish discourse' and the Hebraic subtext in the development of Yiddish literature and culture	Atomic politics: Speech acts in Lucretius' 'De rerum natura'

Bleeding regions: Performance and politics in the 'backwaters' of the Atlantic (Paul Gilroy, Joseph Roach, Mustapha Matura, England, John Millington Synge, Stewart Parker, Northern Ireland)	Diasporic culture and the makings of Alexander romances

Divining King Arthur: The calendric significance of twelfth century cathedral depictions in Italy	Empire or umma writing beyond the nation in Moroccan periodicals

Fantasies of return in Greek tragedy and culture	From poetry to politics: Petrarchism as discursive formation in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy

From therapeutic nihilism to the detection of simulated symptoms: A sequential critique of medical treatment from the 1850s to the 1914--1918 war, by G. Flaubert, Leon Daudet and L.-F. Celine (France, Ignaz Semmelweiss, Hungary)	Improvising empire: Literary accounts from the Russian and Austrian borderlands, 1862--1923

Jewish writers in the Arab East: Literature, history, and the politics of enlightenment, 1863--1914	Literature of the Chicano/a borderlands and the Filipino/a diaspora

Longing for a different order of difficulty: Theolologicophilolological modernism's insoluble questions and resolute quests	Lyricism and politics in Paul Valery's poetry and poetic theory and in "La Nouvelle Revue Francaise", 1909--1939

Making space: Stockholm, Paris, and the urban prose of Strindberg and his contemporaries	Means of intelligibility

Meir Aaron Goldschmidt and the poetics of prose (Denmark)	Micro modernism: Hosts and parasites in the life of narrative (Ireland, Argentina, Spain)

Migration, literature and the nation: Mahjar literature in Brazil	Nuevo Romanticismo and the reception of Russian literature: Integrating dehumanized and social art (Spain)

Performing theory: Gendered and erotic complications in cinquecento comedies, and some English reverberations	Personifying capitalism: Economic imagination, the novel, and the entrepreneur (Honore de Balzac, France, William Faulkner)

Photographic modernism: The pursuit of objectivity	Pitol y Tabucchi: El reves de la literatura (Spanish text, Sergio Pitol, Mexico, Antonio Tabucchi, Italy)

Rogue poetry: Cecco Angiolieri and the troubadour tradition (Italy)	Sightseeing: Writing vision in Slavic travel narratives (Russia, Bulgaria)

Specter, spectacle and the imaginative space: Unfixing the tragic mulatta (Eliza Potter, William Wells Brown)	Stateless subjects: Chinese martial arts fiction and the morphology of labor

The aesthetics of the worst: Remembering and forgetting in French, Yiddish, and architectural Holocaust representations	The incest ballad of 'Delgadina': Oral tradition from medieval Spain to Latin America (Mexico, Cuba)

The limits of secular criticism: World literature at the crossroads of empires	The mediated muse: Catullan lyricism and Roman translation

Truthful precedents: Law reports, the realist novel, and the question of fictionality	Truths about women: Self-representation as fiction and testimony in the diaries of Victoria Benedictsson, Aino Kallas, and Elin Wagner (Sweden, Finland)

Venice and the digressive invention of the modern: Retrospection's futurity (Italy, Henry James, Ezra Pound)	Wonder's collapse: Formations of trans-American sexualities