Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. A Note on the Texts x
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Roland Barthes, from A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments 48
8. 2 ‘Where are we going? And What Are We Doing?’ 63
9. 3. Anne Carson, ‘Every Exit Is an Entrance (A Praise of Sleep)’ 82
10. 4 Hélène Cixous, ‘Without end, no, State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner’s taking off’ 103
11. 5 Jacques Derrida, ‘Aphorism Countertime’ 116
12. 6 Geoff Dyer, from Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence 133
13. 7 Benjamin Friedlander, ‘Gertrude Stein: A Retrospective Criticism’ 160
14. 8 Peter Gizzi, ‘Correspondences of the Book’ 176
15. 9 Kevin Kopelson, ‘Music Lessons’ 186
16. 10 Denise Riley, ‘Lyric Selves’ 205
17. 11 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl’ 226
18. 12 Ali Smith, ‘Green’ 249
19. 13 John Wilkinson, ‘Imperfect Pitch’ 257
20. 14 Sarah Wood, ‘Anew Again’ 277
21. Index 293