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'We'll build in sonnets': The construction of the literary persona in early modern sonnets composed in Hebrew, English, and Spanish	A consuming fever of history: A study of five urgent flashbacks in Arabic film and literature

A poet of the Americas: Neruda's translations of Whitman and North American translations of Neruda (Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman)	A poetics of the local: Enactments of place in the writing of Masaoka Shiki, William Carlos Williams and Robert Desnos (Japan, France)

A question of representation: Korean modernist fiction of the 1930s	A virgin's lovers: James Merrill, Stephane Mallarme, and the symbolist quest (France)

Black Soundscapes, White Stages: The meaning of sound in the black francophone Atlantic	Crime and contact in Rio de Janeiro's Belle Epoque

Decadent Orientalisms: Configuring the decay of colonial modernity in French and Arabic	Dos pilares confrontados: La 'Historia de la conquista de Mexico' de Francisco Lopez de Gomara y la 'Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana' de Bernal Diaz del Castillo (Spanish text)

Eden's exiles and their deviant domains: The aesthetics of negative space in the poetry of Pedro Salinas and Luis Cernuda	Ethics of desire: Sexual alterity in twentieth-century Chinese-language fiction

Fragmentation et ecriture du manque au Moyen Age	Illusions of the artless: Spectacles of nature in Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Claude-Henri Watelet (France)

Imperial ellipses: France, India, and the critical imagination	Irish Realism: Women, the novel, and national politics, 1870--1922

Islam and the eastern African novel: Revisiting nation, diaspora, modernity	Islands and oases: Italian colonial cultures, migration, and utopia in women's writing in Italian and English

Lost and found in black translation: Langston Hughes's translations of French- and Spanish-lanugage poetry, his Hispanic and Francophone translators, and the fashioning of radical black subjectivities	Minor literature comes of age: Transatlantic rites of passage in the Irish Revival and the Southern Renaissance (Lady Gregory, Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Bowen)

National descent: Vietnamese diasporic literature and film	Sacred bodies, sacred memories: The Black body and collective memory in contemporary Luso-Brazilian and Lusophone African literature and film

Space as storyteller: Benjamin, Marinetti, Calvino and Perec (Walter Benjamin, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, France, Italy)	Symbolist saboteur: Anarchism and aesthetics in fin-de-siecle France (Rachilde, Alfred Jarry, Henrik Ibsen, Norway)

The 'Columbeis' of Giulio Cesare Stella (1564--1624), Roman edition, 1589 (Italy)	The OULIPO and art as retrieval: Copyists and translators in the novels of Raymond Queneau, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, and Georges Perec

The Paris attempt: Rearticulation of (national) belonging and the inscription of aftermath experience in French Armenian literature between the wars	The development of vernacular literatures: Case studies in Old Irish, Ulster-Scots and Afrikaans (Ireland, South Africa)

The language(s) of spirituality in the writings of Caterina Vigri, Illuminata Bembo and Teresa de Cartagena (Italy, Spain)	The materials---technoscience and poetry at the limits of fabrication

The origins and development of Persian epics	The terror of gentility: Race, class and gendered anti-modernism in the works of Isak Dinesen and Flannery O'Connor (Denmark)

The translator's colors: Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and elsewhere	Theatre as asylum, asylum as theatre: Cross-channel institutional intersections from 1780 to 1830

Translated encounters and empire: Colonial Korea and the literature of exile	Translation, popular imagination and the novelistic reconfiguration of literary discourse, China: 1890s--1920s

Vladimir Nabokov as translator: The multilingual works of the Russian period	What evil looked like: The practice of reading the criminal body in 19th- and 20th-century Europe

Writing from the riverbank: Juan Jose Saer and the nouveau roman	Writing outside the lines: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and the Spanish translations of Leone Ebreos 'Dialogues of Love' (Dialoghi d'amore)