5 How Do Oracles Mean?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Note on Abbreviations xvi
5. Introduction: 1
6. PART I THE SURFACE OF LANGUAGE AND THE ABSENCE OF MEANING
7. 1 From Soul-Making to Person-Making 27
8. 2 The Logical Form of Fiction 50
9. 3 The Emptiness of Literary Interpretation 80
10. 4 To Be But Not To Mean 101
11. 5 How Do Oracles Mean? 121
12. PART II SENSES AND NONSENSES: JOYCE'S FINNEGANS WAKE AND WITTGENSTEIN'S PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
13. 6 A Twitterlitter of Nonsense: 145
14. 7 The Analogy between Persons and Words 168
15. 8 "The Human Body Is the Best Picture of the Human Soul" 192
16. 9 The Senses of Time 216
17. 10 Being Something and Meaning Something 238
18. Bibliography 261
19. Acknowledgments 269
20. Index 271