Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Part I: Provocation -- Introduction -- Comparativism as Wounds of Possibility -- Comparison as Translation: The Possibility of the Comparative Study of South African Literatures -- Oriental Paradises at the Crossroads of Cultural Translation -- Uncanny Encounters: Face to Face with "Failed" Assimilation -- European Travel Writing, Imperialist Discourses and Analogy in Nineteenth-Century Argentinian Literature -- "The Bone that Writes": Desaparecidos and the Disappearance of Literature -- The Idiom of the Other -- Representation and Re-Presentation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens and David Jones -- Part II: Negotiation -- Introduction -- Allegory and Melancholy in Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Christine de Pizan -- Psychoanalysis and Literary Tradition: The "Anxiety of Influence" in Luis García Montero's Reformulation of Rafael Alberti -- Lost/Lasting in Translation: What Happened to the Laughing Isaac (Genesis 17-26) -- The Inflected Text: Hindle Wakes and Its Film Adaptations -- Twentieth-Century Dramatizations of the Trials of Oscar Wilde -- Henry James and the Death of the Biographer: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach to the Writing of Lives -- Evolution and Agnosticism: Thomas Henry Huxley, Julian Huxley, and Richard Dawkins -- Matthew Arnold and the Use of Comparison -- Afterword: "Cutting Edge" - Why It Mattersand Where It Is Now -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.