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Part 1: Mallarme and the "siecle finissant", Peter Dayan; disinterestedNarcissus - the play of politics in decadent form, Jennifer Birkett;experiment in women's writing in the "fin de siecle", Alison Finch; thepoetry of symbolism and decadence, Clive Scott; the difficult distance -Mallarme and the symbolist stage, Michael Holland; the kinaesthetics ofchance - Mallarme's "Un Coup de des" and avant-garde choreography, DeeReynolds; Villiers, Verne, Lumiere - the business of immortality, IanChristie; text and image, allegory and symbol in Gustave Moreau's "Jupiter etSemele", Peter Cooke; between medicine and hermeticism - "the" unconscious inthe "fin de siecle". Part 2: primitivism, celticism and morbidity in theAtlantic "fin de siecle", Scott Ashley; Belgian symbolism and the question ofBelgian literary identity, Patrick Laude; temporary aesthetes - decadence andsymbolism in Germany and Austria, Robert Vilain; the war of the wor(l)ds -symbolist decadent literature and discourses of power in finisecular Spain,Richard A. Cardwell; French symbolism and Italian poetry, 1880-1920, ShirleyW. Winall; from Mallarme to Pound - the "Franco-Anglo-American" axis, PatrickMcGuinness.