Comparative Criticism

Elinor Schaffer is at the School of Advanced Studies

List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Frontispiece: Francis Bacon: 'Study after Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X' Editor's introduction: Dances of Life and death: comparative and interdisciplinary biography; Part I The lives of the disciplines: comparative biography; Comparative biography and the DNB Brian Harrison Excerpts from The Last Brahmin Translated from the Telugu by D. Venkat Rao with an introduction 'The ends of learning: Tradition and the problem of inheritance' Rani Shivashankara Suicide and biography Janet Todd Revising Hegel's Phenomenology on the left: Luckacs, Kojeve, Hyppolite Galin Tihanov Proust and Italian painting With illustrations Malcolm Bowie Visual musical poetry: the feeling of Pallaksch in Bacon, Celan, and Kurtag With illustrations Beate J. Perrey 'A Relic of an ages still capable of a Romantic outlook': Musical biography and The Master Musicians Series, 1899-1906 Christopher Wiley; Part II Literature and translations; Winners of the BCLA/BCLT 2002 Translation Competition Introduction to Against the Grain by Robert Desnos Katharine Conley Translated from the French by Timothy Ades Translator's Note Latin poems George Herbert Translated by Mike Mottram; Part III Essay reviews; SCOTT MANDELBROTE A Mind-body problem. On Cambridge Scientific Minds ELINOR SHAFFER Composing and decomposing the corpus of William Beckford: French and English Beckford On Kenneth Grahm, ed. Beckford's Vathek with the Episodes; Didier Girar,ed. Vathek et ses Epistodes and L'Esplendente et autres contes inedites; Timothy Mowl, William Beckford: Compsoing for Mozart; William Beckford: A Taste for the Magnificent, Exhibition Catalogue (New York: Bard Graduate Centre) Books and periodicals received Compiled by Andrea Brady.