II. "The Personage in Question": Self and Language

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Preface xiii
6. I. "A World of Words" 1
7. II. "The Personage in Question": Self and Language 17
8. III. "An Unknown Quantity of X": Some Anxieties of Authority 45
9. IV. "Duelli Lex Scripta, et Non, Aliterque": The Struggle for Authority 62
10. V. "Word of No Meaning": Denial of the Symbol 80
11. VI. Voice and Text: Displacements of Authority 105
12. VII. Conclusion: Allegories of Reading 122
13. Notes 153
14. Index 179