Jean-Michel Rabate has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992. He is a managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature and a senior curator of Slought Foundation. He has authored or edited more than twenty books on Modernism, literary theory, psychoanalysis and contemporary art. Recent titles include: The Future of Theory (2002); Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2003), The Palgrave Guide to Joyce Studies (2004); and forthcoming: Logiques du Mensonge.

• The Esthetics of Murder: Of Sirens, Traces and Auras; Freud's Da Vinci Code: Interpretation as Crime; Duchamp's fait-divers: Murder as a "Read-Made"; Scene of the Crime: Nothing to See!; Scalpel and Brush, Pen and Poison: The Ekphrasis of Murder; Who Killed Bergotte? The Patch and the Corpse; Surrealist Esthetics of Murder: From Hysteria to Paranoia; Murder as Kitsch, Abstraction and Ritual; Conclusion - How to Think "Not Abstractly"; Index.

Jean-Michel Rabate has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992. He is a managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature and a senior curator of Slought Foundation. He has authored or edited more than twenty books on Modernism, literary theory, psychoanalysis and contemporary art. Recent titles include: The Future of Theory (2002); Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2003), The Palgrave Guide to Joyce Studies (2004); and forthcoming: Logiques du Mensonge.

• The Esthetics of Murder: Of Sirens, Traces and Auras; Freud's Da Vinci Code: Interpretation as Crime; Duchamp's fait-divers: Murder as a "Read-Made"; Scene of the Crime: Nothing to See!; Scalpel and Brush, Pen and Poison: The Ekphrasis of Murder; Who Killed Bergotte? The Patch and the Corpse; Surrealist Esthetics of Murder: From Hysteria to Paranoia; Murder as Kitsch, Abstraction and Ritual; Conclusion - How to Think "Not Abstractly"; Index.

Jean-Michel Rabate has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992. He is a managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature and a senior curator of Slought Foundation. He has authored or edited more than twenty books on Modernism, literary theory, psychoanalysis and contemporary art. Recent titles include: The Future of Theory (2002); Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2003), The Palgrave Guide to Joyce Studies (2004); and forthcoming: Logiques du Mensonge.

• The Esthetics of Murder: Of Sirens, Traces and Auras; Freud's Da Vinci Code: Interpretation as Crime; Duchamp's fait-divers: Murder as a "Read-Made"; Scene of the Crime: Nothing to See!; Scalpel and Brush, Pen and Poison: The Ekphrasis of Murder; Who Killed Bergotte? The Patch and the Corpse; Surrealist Esthetics of Murder: From Hysteria to Paranoia; Murder as Kitsch, Abstraction and Ritual; Conclusion - How to Think "Not Abstractly"; Index.