Contents

In Memoriam: Jean Baudrillard
WILLIAM STEARNS

In-Theory
On the Rise of Theory: Promises, Shortcomings and the Place of Literature
FABIO DURAO ABSTRACT

In-Labs
Robert Desnos and the Cerebral Pleasure of Art
TANIA COLLANI ABSTRACT

Sibiu, Liverpool, and the European Connection: An Interview with Niall Griffiths
OVIDIU MATIU

Literary Intro/ Retrospections
The Word Is a Window: collaborative poetics in the community between languages
CHRISTOPHER KELEN ABSTRACT

The Gothic of the Normal: The Horrid Monotony of Pointless Suffering
ELAINE HARTNELL ABSTRACT

“Grinding the Corn in the Head’s Mortar” – Discipline and Authoritarian Aesthetics in
Ezra Pound’s Translation of The Great Digest
RON S. JUDY ABSTRACT

A Scientific Outlook on the World
EVA-NICOLETA BURDUŞEL ABSTRACT

Discontinuing Tradition in Reading Steinbeck’