Introduction
Claude Bremond, Joshua Landy, and Thomas Pavel
Part I: Reassessing Thematics
What Is Theme and How Do We Get At It?
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
From Motif to Function and Back Again
Cesare Segre
Theme and Interpretation
Menachem Brinker
Thematic Criticism
Peter Cryle
A Thematics of Motivation and Action
Lubomír Dolezel
Part II: Themaries in Literature
The Bluish Tinge in the Halfmoons; or, Fingernails as a Racial Sign: The Study of a Motif
Werner Sollors
A Semantics for Thematics: The Case of the Double
Lubomír Dolezel
Variations on the Theme of Faust
Jean-Marie Schaeffer
Racinian Spaces
Thomas Pavel
Part III: Other Arts
Painters and their Motifs
Georges Roque
Theme in Classical Music
Françoise Escal
Theme and Thematics in Contemporary Music
Jean-Yves Bosseur
Part IV: Conclusion
The End of an Anathema
Claude Bremond and Thomas Pavel
Notes
Contributors
Index