Contents: Haun Saussy: Introduction. On the Corner - Lois Parkinson Zamora: Dimensionless Cities, Cosmic Selves. The Visionary Spaces of Jorge Luis Borges and Xul Solar - Lucia Boldrini: Among Schoolchildren. Joyce's Night Lesson and Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe - Monica Spiridon: The Day Europe Ended. Urban Apocalypses in the Hinge of Darkness - Dorothy Figueira: Translating the Bhagavad Gita ? From the German Lecture Hall to the Trenches of WW I/From Neo-Nazi Propaganda to the Opera Stage - Hein Viljoen: Some Intersections between Landscape and Poetry in Afrikaans Poetry since 1990 - Jean Bessière : Notes sur quelques jeux de la littérature et de la peinture. Le Bonheur rhétorique de la défiguration - Barthes, Deleuze, Butor, et quelques autres - Hans-Joachim Backe: A Literary Straitjacket? Reflections upon Comics and Literature in Michael Chabon and Brian K. Vaughan - Margaret R. Higonnet: Orality Onto Paper and Into Action - Micéala Symington: The Artist's Book/Book-object as Frontière habitable. Literature, Art and Creative Continuity in Michel Butor's Works - Kenichi Kamigaito: Haruki Murakami and Western Classical Music. Janácek's Sinfonietta as Leitmotiv of the Novel, 1Q84 - Gerald E.P. Gillespie: Speaking of and through the Arts in Fiction after Romanticism - Suzanne Nalbantian: Neuro Studies of Literature and Art. Toward a Responsible Critical Methodology - Anders Pettersson: The Application of Literature and of Music - Marina Grishakova: Unruly Fictions. Literature, Mimesis and Media - Hitoshi shima: Science, Literature and Art. An Introduction to Modern Criticism through Kobayashi Hideo - Steven P. Sondrup: Nordic Friends.