Nicholas Harrison is Head of the French Department at King's College London. He is Editor of the journal Paragraph.

Thought-provoking and considered... The articles collected here are intelligent, rewarding and timely in their soundings of the idea of the literary and its imbrications of aesthetics and world. -- Patrick Crowley French Studies Thought-provoking and considered... The articles collected here are intelligent, rewarding and timely in their soundings of the idea of the literary and its imbrications of aesthetics and world.

• Preface, Nicholas Harrison; Who Needs and Idea of the Literary? Nicholas Harrison; Performing Metaphors: The Singularity of Literary Figuration, Derek Attridge; Qu'est-ce que la literature pense? (Literary Thinking), Alain Badiou; The Facticity of the Literary Work, Jean Bessière; Musical Thinking: Hegel and the Phenomenology of Prosody, Simon Jarvis; Reflections on the Excess of Empire in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, Benita Parry; Literary Misunderstanding, Jacques Rancière; A Defence of Tautology: Repetition and Difference in Wordsworth's Note to 'The Thorn', Corinna Russell; Ecrire/Writing, Assia Djebar.

Nicholas Harrison is Head of the French Department at King's College London. He is Editor of the journal Paragraph.

Thought-provoking and considered... The articles collected here are intelligent, rewarding and timely in their soundings of the idea of the literary and its imbrications of aesthetics and world. -- Patrick Crowley French Studies Thought-provoking and considered... The articles collected here are intelligent, rewarding and timely in their soundings of the idea of the literary and its imbrications of aesthetics and world.

• Preface, Nicholas Harrison; Who Needs and Idea of the Literary? Nicholas Harrison; Performing Metaphors: The Singularity of Literary Figuration, Derek Attridge; Qu'est-ce que la literature pense? (Literary Thinking), Alain Badiou; The Facticity of the Literary Work, Jean Bessière; Musical Thinking: Hegel and the Phenomenology of Prosody, Simon Jarvis; Reflections on the Excess of Empire in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, Benita Parry; Literary Misunderstanding, Jacques Rancière; A Defence of Tautology: Repetition and Difference in Wordsworth's Note to 'The Thorn', Corinna Russell; Ecrire/Writing, Assia Djebar.

Nicholas Harrison is Head of the French Department at King's College London. He is Editor of the journal Paragraph.

Thought-provoking and considered... The articles collected here are intelligent, rewarding and timely in their soundings of the idea of the literary and its imbrications of aesthetics and world. -- Patrick Crowley French Studies Thought-provoking and considered... The articles collected here are intelligent, rewarding and timely in their soundings of the idea of the literary and its imbrications of aesthetics and world.

• Preface, Nicholas Harrison; Who Needs and Idea of the Literary? Nicholas Harrison; Performing Metaphors: The Singularity of Literary Figuration, Derek Attridge; Qu'est-ce que la literature pense? (Literary Thinking), Alain Badiou; The Facticity of the Literary Work, Jean Bessière; Musical Thinking: Hegel and the Phenomenology of Prosody, Simon Jarvis; Reflections on the Excess of Empire in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, Benita Parry; Literary Misunderstanding, Jacques Rancière; A Defence of Tautology: Repetition and Difference in Wordsworth's Note to 'The Thorn', Corinna Russell; Ecrire/Writing, Assia Djebar.