Marvell and the art of disappearance / Stanley Fish -- Ekphrasis revisited, or Antitheticality reconstructed / Hazard Adams -- Friedrich Schlegel and the anti-Ekphrastic tradition / J. Hillis Miller -- On truth and lie in an aesthetic sense / Ernst Behler -- Pictures of poetry in Marot's Épigrammes / Stephen G. Nichols -- Murray Krieger versus Paul de Man / Denis Donoghue -- Organicism in literature and history: from (Murray Krieger's) poetics to (Jules Michelet's) politics / David Carroll -- Of wisdom and competence / Wesley Morris -- What is literary anthropology? The difference between explanatory and exploratory fictions / Wolfgang Iser -- "A self-unsealing poetic text": poetics and politics of witnessing / Jacques Derrida ; translated by Rachel Bowlby -- My travels with the aesthetic / Murray Krieger.