Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Difficulty, Ethical Teaching, and Yearning for Transformation in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Modernist Literature 1
4. 1. Wittgenstein’s Puzzle: The Transformative Ethics of the Tractatus 40
5. 2. The Everyday’s Fabulous Beyond: Nonsense, Parable, and the Ethics of the Literary in Kafka and Wittgenstein 74
6. 3. Woolf, Diamond, and the Difficulty of Reality 106
7. 4. Wittgenstein, Joyce, and the Vanishing Problem of Life 164
8. 5. A New Life Is a New Life: Teaching, Transformation, and Tautology in Coetzee’s Childhood of Jesus 216
9. Acknowledgments 277
10. Notes 281
11. Index 329