- Introduction: “Theme” as a Theme [Werner Sollors]
- I. General Essays
- Theme and Interpretation [Menachem Brinker]
- A Brief Genealogy of “Theme” [Nancy Armstrong]
- Concept and Theme [Claude Bremond]
- A Generative Approach to Thematics: Poetics of Expressiveness and Modern Criticism [Yuri K. Shcheglov]
- Motif and Theme as Structural Content Units and “Concrete Universals” [Theodor Wolpers]
- The Concept of Motif in Literature: A Terminological Study [Michel Vanhelleputte]
- II. On Thematic Practice
- Literary Histories and the Themes of Literature [David Perkins]
- Thematics and Historical Evidence [Thomas Pavel]
- Autumn Poems: Reflections on Theme as Tertium Comparationis [Holger Klein]
- The Thematics of Jean-Pierre Richard [Léon Somville]
- In Search of the Narrative Theme [Marie-Laure Ryan]
- III. Case Studies
- Shakespeare’s Themes, with Variations [Harry Levin]
- “Topoi” of Realism: The Metamorphosis of Colors [Francesco Orlando]
- Bachelors in Paradise: The State of a Theme [Lynn Wardley]
- Topology and Typology: A Study of Shifting Sign/Code Relations [Juan Bruce-Novoa]
- Wagner’s Parsifal between Mystery and Mummery; or, Race, Class, and Gender in Bayreuth [Theodore Ziolkowski]
- IV. Short Takes
- Love and Death [Leslie Fiedler]
- Thematizing [J. M. Coetzee]
- Reflections on Stoffgeschichte [Raymond Trousson]
- Themes and the “Kernel of Truth” [Sander L. Gilman]
- Beyond “Form vs. Theme” [Alexander Zholkovsky]
- Roncevaux [George Steiner]
- Selected Bibliography [Neal Dolan]
HARVARD ENGLISH STUDIES
Harvard English Studies 18
The Return of Thematic Criticism
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