Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Introduction: The Matter of Form 1
5. 1 The Corporeal Urn 51
6. 2 La Pensée incarnée: Embodying the Unrepresentable in Anne F. Garréta’s Sphinx 69
7. 3 “All life is figure and ground”: Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Embodied Form 98
8. 4 The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Chiasmus, Embodiment, and Interpretation in Maurice Blanchot 138
9. 5 The Hunger Artist: Testimony, Representation, and Embodiment in Primo Levi 151
10. Afterword Against the Unrepresentable: The Common Sense of Embodied Form 193
11. Bibliography 205
12. Index 220