1. The universal in literature

   • A. Owen Aldridge

   Editorial Pages: 9 - 31

2. The pitfalls of the definitions of world literature

   • Anna Balakian

   Editorial Pages: 33 - 39

3. Myth and literature: The example of modern drama

   • Eva Kushner

   Editorial Pages: 41 - 53

4. Suggestiveness in Chinese poetics

   • Chien Hou

   Editorial Pages: 55 - 67

5. Explorations in the interrelations of literature and music in a non-western context: China, Japan, India and Africa

   • Jean-Pierre Barricelli

   Editorial Pages: 69 - 87

6. The Bellagio Conference on World Literature

   • Robert J. Clements

   Editorial Pages: 89 - 92

7. Biblical influence upon Yasunari Kawabata

   • Katsuhiko Takeda

   Ergasterium Pages: 95 - 103

8. Narrative time in the Korean novel

   • Uchang Kim

   Ergasterium Pages: 105 - 113

9. Haiku and American poetry: The influence of Haiku upon American poetry

   • Akira Kawano

   Ergasterium Pages: 115 - 122

10. The concept of feeling in Chinese, English and German literary criticism

    • Marián Gálik

    Ergasterium Pages: 123 - 130

11. Impasses narratives dansLes Nuits d'Octobre de Gérard de Nerval

    • Bruno Tritsmans

    Speculum Pages: 133 - 163

12. Descartes à la mode: Nietzsche and Valéry on cognition

    • Leonard Orr

    Speculum Pages: 165 - 176

13. Le personnage et ses contours. Quelques approches littéraires et picturales au seuil du romantisme

    • Hana Jechová

    Speculum Pages: 177 - 202

14. Of cockroaches and “civilizing” Hungary: Imre Madách as an aristophanic satirist

    • Dieter P. Lotze

    Speculum Pages: 203 - 219

15. Where the devil leads: Peasant superstitions in George Sand'sPetite fadette and Drostehülshoff'sJudenbuche

    • Robert Godwin-Jones

    Speculum Pages: 221 - 238

16. Metamorphosis and artistic function of objects¹ in African literature

    • S. O. Aje

    Speculum Pages: 239 - 249

17. Cartographie de l'afrique littéraire: Le projet «Halel»

    • Albert Gérard

    Historia Litterarum Europaearum Pages: 253 - 274

18. Problems and tasks of Latin American literary historiography (the continental and national literary histories)

    • Beatriz Gonzálezs

    Historia Litterarum Europaearum Pages: 275 - 298

19. Intertexte, institution, pédagogie

    • Ralph Heyndels

    Diversa Pages: 301 - 309

20. Sur la littérature comparée contemporaine

    • Penjo Rusev

    Diversa Pages: 311 - 318

21. Genre, structure and reproduction in oral literature

    • György C. Kálmán

    Diversa Pages: 319 - 320