Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction 1
4. Part one. Situating Utterance
5. One. The Interpretive Shuttle: The Structure of Critical Practice after World War II 17
6. Two. Bodies and Texts 99
7. Part two. Situating Agency: Texts against Countertexts
8. Three. The Origins of Bucolic Representation: Disenchantment and Revision in Theocritus’s Seventh Idyll 129
9. Four. Narrative as Rhetoric in The Faerie Queene 173
10. Five. The Pepys Show: Ghostwriting and Documentary Desire in The Diary 218
11. Part three. Situating History: Contexts as Countertexts
12. Six. From Body to Cosmos: The Dynamics of Representation in Precapitalist Society 253
13. Seven. The Lie of the Land: The Text beyond Canaan 297
14. Eight. Social Structure as Doom: The Limits of Heroism in Beowulf 321
15. Nine. Fiction and Facticity: Reflections on Christian Nudity 363
16. Part four. Situating Socrates: The Sublation of Socratic Utterance in Plato’s Dialogues
17. Ten. Facing Sophists: Socrates’ Charismatic Bondage in Protagoras 379
18. Eleven. Phaedrus and the Politics of Inscription 415
19. Twelve. The Athenian Terrorist: Plato’s Portrait of Critias 455
20. Part five. Conclusion: Situating Interpretation
21. Thirteen. Making Interpretation Manageable: An Eight-Step Program 491
22. Notes 517
23. Index 569