Chapter 14. An aesthetics of indirection in novels and letters

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Contributors xi
5. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2. Herbert’s considerateness 21
7. Chapter 3. “Not my readers but the readers of their own selves” 29
8. Chapter 4. Intersubjective positioning and community-making 47
9. Chapter 5. Genuine and distorted communication in autobiographical writing 61
10. Chapter 6. Women and the public sphere 81
11. Chapter 7. Kipling, his narrator, and public interest 99
12. Chapter 8. Call and response 115
13. Chapter 9. Hypothetical action 129
14. Chapter 10. Metacommunication as ritual 147
15. Chapter 11. Terminal aposiopesis and sublime communication 167
16. Chapter 12. The utopian horizon of communication 189
17. Chapter 13. When philosophy must become literature 213
18. Chapter 14. An aesthetics of indirection in novels and letters 229
19. Chapter 15. Letters from a (post-)troubled city 247
20. Index 267