Addresses literary theory and criticism, comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

List of illustrations; list of contributors; Acknowledgements; Frontispiece: drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci; Editor's introduction: century's ends, culture's ends; Part I. Walter Pater and the Culture of the Fin-de-Siècle: 1. The antinomian Pater: 1894¿1994 Denis Donoghue; 2. Walter Pater: from philosophy to art Richard Wollheim; 3. Enfoldings in Paterian discourse: modes of translatability Wolfgang Iser; 4. Pater and the 'aesthetical sect' Nicholas Shrimpton; 5. John 'Dorian' Gray and the theme of subservient love in Pater's works of the 1890s Billie Andrew Inman; 6. Baudelaire, Pater and the origins of modernism David Carrier; 7. Epilogue: on the homelessness of the image. With illustrations; Part II. Literature, Translation and Performance: 8. Art criticism versus poetry: an introduction to Adrian Stokes's 'Pisanello' Richard Read; 9. Pisanello. First of four essays on the Tempio Malatestiano at Rimini. With illustrations Adrian Stokes; Section 1. Winners of the 1993 BCLA Translation Competition Open Competition: 10. First prize: 'The ghost of the Jewish ghetto' Paul Leppin: a story translated from the German Michael Mitchell; 11. Second prize: 'The woman who kept a unicorn in the kitchen' Lydia Knecht: a story translated from the Hebrew Asher Harris; 12. Special Prize for Hebrew, Yiddish, Jewish Theme: 'Jews at the well' Franz Theodor Csokor: a story translated from the German Michael Mitchell; 13. Special Prize for Spanish first prize: extract from The Letter from the Wilderness Göran Tunström translation Eivor Martinus; 14. Special prize for Spanish second prize: Women in the Nude and Bodies in the Post Dario Fo: a play translated from the Italian with an introduction: 'Fo, Feydeau and Ionesco: tragic farce and comic farce' Joseph Farrell; Part III. Essay Reviews: On Jahan Ramazani, Poetry of Mourning. The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney Simon Curtis; Compilation of books and periodicals received Seán Matthews; Compiled bibliography of comparative literature in Great Britain and Ireland 1991 Nicholas Crowe.