Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XIII
4. PART I: FIVE SUMMARIZING ESSAYS
5. Note 2
6. Chapter One — Definition of Man 3
7. Chapter Two — Poetics in Particular, Language in General 25
8. Chapter Three — Terministic Screens 44
9. Chapter Four — Mind, Body and the Unconscious 63
10. Chapter Five — Coriolanus—and the Delights of Faction 81
11. PART II: PARTICULAR WORKS AND AUTHORS
12. Chapter One — Shakespearean Persuasion: Antony and Cleopatra 101
13. Chapter Two — Timon of Athens and Misanthropic Gold 115
14. Chapter Three — Form and Persecution in the Oresteia 125
15. Chapter Four — Goethe's Faust, Part I 139
16. Chapter Five — Faust II—The Ideas Behind the Image 163
17. Chapter Six — I, Eye, Ay—Concerning Emerson's Early Essay on "Nature" and the Machinery of Transcendence 186
18. Chapter Seven — "Kubla Khan," Proto-Surrealist Poem 201
19. Chapter Seven —Social and Cosmic Mystery: A Passage to India 223
20. Chapter Nine- Version, Con-, Per-, and In- Thoughts on Djuna Barnes's Novel Nightwood 240
21. Chapter Ten — The Vegetal Radicalism of Theodore Roethke 254
22. Chapter Eleven — William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963 282
23. PART III: FURTHER ESSAYS ON SYMBOLISM IN GENERAL
24. Note 294
25. Chapter One — Rhetoric and Poetics 295
26. Chapter Two — The Thinking of the Body (Comments on the Imagery of Catharsis in Literature) 308
27. Chapter Three — Somnia ad Urinandum: More Thoughts on Motion and Action 344
28. Chapter Four — What Are the Signs of What? (A Theory of "Entitlement") 359
29. Chapter Five — Myth, Poetry, and Philosophy 380
30. Chapter Six — Medium as "Message" 410
31. Chapter Seven — A Dramatistic View of the Origins of Language 419
32. Chapter Eight — Formalist Criticism: Its Principles and Limits 480
33. Index 507