This is volume 9 in the series Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetic. It has a special focus on Literature and Circularity. Volume 9 - Contents: Christoph Henke and Martin Middeke, Introduction; Verena O. Lobsien, Squaring the Circle: Neoplatonic Versions of the Self in Early Modern Poetry ; Helga Schwalm, Circularity and Subjectivity in Autobiography: Conversion, Closure, Hermeneutics, and Beyond ; Christoph Henke, Life Spirals and Commonsense Aporias: Samuel Johnson's Rasselas Revisited ; Aleida Assmann, Circle and Line: Cultural Constructions of Time between History and Memory; Martin Middeke, On Circles and Spirals: Time, Repetition, and Meta-Hermeneutics in Literature ; Hans Ulrich Seeber, Organic and Textual Circularity in Poems by Edward Thomas and W. H. Auden; J. Hillis Miller, The Circle and the Straight Line in William Faulkner's Light in August; Albert Kummel-Schnur, Fake Resurrections: On the Motif of Recurrence in Philip K. Dick; Julian Wolfreys, The Unbearable Circularity of Being; Susana Onega, Circularity and the Quest in the Novels of Jeanette Winterson; Christina Wald, Second Selves, Second Stories: Unreliable Narration and the Circularity of Reading in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Chuck Palahniuk's / David Fincher's Fight Club. General Section : Nazzareno Cicchi, 'Enigmas without a Clue': The Immanent Symbolism of De Chiciro's Painting and Writing; Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, The Disturbed Image: (Re-)Visions of Space and Englishness in Contemporary British Fiction; Daniela Carpi, Prospero's Books by Peter Greenaway and The Tempest by William Shakespeare: Science, Magic, and Painting; Jana Gohrisch, The White Man's Descent into Hell: J. M. Coetzee's Novel Disgrace and the Political Uses of Transculturality; Wilhelm Potters, The 'Root' of the Tree Knowledge: Symbols and Icons in Dante's Divine Comedy.