Preface

Note on Abbreviations

Introduction: What Are We When We Are Not?

Part I The Surface of Language and the Absence of Meaning

1. From Soul-Making to Person-Making

2. The Logical Form of Fiction

3. The Emptiness of Literary Interpretation

4. To Be But Not To Mean

5. How Do Oracles Mean?

Part II Senses and Nonsenses: Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

6. A Twitterlitter of Nonsense: Askesis at Finnegans Wake

7. The Analogy between Persons and Words

8. "The Human Body Is the Best Picture of the Human Soul"

9. The Senses of Time

10. Being Something and Meaning Something



Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Brett Bourbon is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University.