Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Passion for the unnameable : History and the aesthetic dimension in the work of Luiz Costa Lima -- Lima, Luiz Costa: History of a Ban -- The religious control of imagination -- The joys and sorrows of the self -- Literature and society in Hispanic America : Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Diderot - philosopher and art critic -- An Approach to Jorge Luis Borges -- A proscribed concept - Mimesis and avant-garde theory -- Oblique fiction and 'The Tempest'