Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. I. CLEAVAGE AND GROWTH
5. 1. Transformations of the Word and Alienation 17
6. II. THE SEQUESTRATION OF VOICE
7. 2. The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction 53
8. 3. Media Transformation: The Talked Book 82
9. 4. African Talking Drums and Oral Noetics 92
10. 5. "I See What You Say": Sense Analogues for Intellect 121
11. III. CLOSURE AND PRINT
12. 6. Typographic Rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger, and Shakespeare 147
13. 7. From Epithet to Logic: Miltonic Epic and the Closure of Existence 189
14. 8. The Poem as a Closed Field: The Once New Criticism and the Nature of Literature 213
15. 9. Maranatha: Death and Life in the Text of the Book 230
16. 10. From Mimesis to Irony: Writing and Print as Integuments of Voice 272
17. IV. PRESENT AND FUTURE
18. 11. Voice and the Opening of Closed Systems 305
19. Index 343