• List of Figures
• Note to the Reader
• Introduction. Abe Kobo's Dictionary
1. Transforming Science: Metamorphosis in Abe's Life and Work
2. Abe's Essays and Some Historical Distinctions Between Literature and Science
3. Whirring Clicking Poetry: Inter Ice Age 4
4. The Dialogue of Styles, the Dance of Fiction, and The Face of Another
5. The Hope of Technology and the Technology of Hope in The Woman in the Dunes
6. The Parody, Perversity, and Cacophony of Secret Rendezvous
7. A Technology of Silence: The Ark Sakura and the Nuclear Threat
• Reference Matter
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index

Christopher Bolton is Assistant Professor of Japanese at Williams College.