Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS xi
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I. A NEW JERUSALEM: THE HISTORICAL WORK OF IMAGINATION
6. 1. PLATO AND THE DIALECTIC OF CRITICISM 13
7. 2. BLAKE AND THE AESTHETICS OF DELIBERATE ENGAGEMENT 32
8. 3. THE DAWN OF THE INCOMMENSURATE 50
9. 4. POETIC IDEOLOGY AND NONNORMATIVE TRUTH 73
10. PART II. ADVERSE WHEELS: LITERATURE AND THE WORK OF KNOWING
11. 5. BEGINNING AGAIN: LITERARY STUDIES AND THE CRISIS OF LEGITIMATION 95
12. 6. THE SCANDAL OF REFERENTIALITY 115
13. 7. SOME FORMS OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE 132
14. 8. THE IDEA OF AN INDETERMINATE TEXT: BLAKE'S BIBLE OF HELL AND DR. ALEXANDER GEDDES 152
15. 9. ULYSSES AS A POSTMODERN WORK 173
16. PART III. LITERATURE AND THE FUTURE OF HISTORY
17. 10. CONTEMPORARY POETRY, ALTERNATE ROUTES 197
18. 11. THE THIRD WORLD OF CRITICISM 221
19. CONCLUSION: THE LOSS OF POETRY 241
20. NOTES 251
21. INDEX 271