Contents
Preface p. i
Acknowledgements p. vii
Abbreviations p. viii
Chapter 1, Introduction: Paradise Lost as an Allegory
of Finitude p. 1-1
Chapter 2: Skeptical Self-Contradiction in Hopscotch:
Knowing, Being, Reading, Writing p. 2-1
The Self-Contradiction of Cort zar's "Active
Spectator": How to know? How to be? p. 2-3
The Confused Hermeneutics of Hopscotch:
How to read? How to write? p. 2-58
Chapter 3: Kafka, Wittgenstein, and the Limits of Language p. 3-1
Wittgensteinian Skepticism in The Castle:
Inside and Outside the Language-game at Once p. 3-9
"On Parables": the Value of Already Knowing That
the Incomprehensible Is Incomprehensible p. 3-60
Chapter 4: The Skeptic and the Hermeneut in Joyce p. 4-1
Stephen's Rejection of Finitude p. 4-11
Bloom's Finite Existence and Hermeneutical
Aesthetic, Bloomitas p. 4-57
Chapter 5, Conclusion: Joyce's Teacup p. 5-1
Notes p. 1
Works Cited [in a separate file] p. 1