Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Editors’ Preface xi
5. Personhood and Other Objects xvii
6. Barbara Johnson xxvii
7. Part I. Reading Theory as Literature, Literature as Theory
8. Chapter 1. The Critical Difference 3
9. Chapter 2. Translator’s Introduction to Dissemination (abridged) 14
10. Chapter 3. Poetry and Syntax 26
11. Chapter 4. A Hound, a Bay Horse, and a Turtle Dove 36
12. Chapter 5. Strange Fits 44
13. Chapter 6. The Frame of Reference 57
14. Part II. Race, Sexuality, Gender
15. Chapter 7. Euphemism, Understatement, and the Passive Voice 101
16. Chapter 8. Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God 108
17. Chapter 9. Moses and Intertextuality 126
18. Chapter 10. Lesbian Spectacles 141
19. Chapter 11. Bringing Out D. A. Miller 147
20. Chapter 12. Correctional Facilities 155
21. Chapter 13. My Monster/My Self 179
22. Part III. Language, Personhood, Ethics
23. Chapter 14. Introduction to Freedom and Interpretation (abridged) 193
24. Chapter 15. Muteness Envy 200
25. Chapter 16. Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion 217
26. Chapter 17. Anthropomorphism in Lyric and Law 235
27. Chapter 18. Using People 262
28. Chapter 19. Ego Sum Game 275
29. Chapter 20. Melville’s Fist 289
30. Part IV. Pedagogy and Translation
31. Chapter 21. Nothing Fails Like Success 327
32. Chapter 22. Bad Writing 334
33. Chapter 23. Teaching Deconstructively 347
34. Chapter 24. Poison or Remedy? Paul de Man as Pharmakon 357
35. Chapter 25. Taking Fidelity Philosophically 371
36. Chapter 26. The Task of the Translator 377
37. Chapter 27. Teaching Ignorance 401
38. Afterword 421
39. Bibliography 433
40. Index 437