PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX

INTRODUCTION: TWOMBLY’S BOOKS

1

1

MEDITERRANEAN PASSAGES: RETROSPECT

24

2

PSYCHOGRAM AND PARNASSUS: HOW (NOT) TO READ A TWOMBLY

51

3

TWOMBLY’S VAGUENESS: THE POETICS OF ABSTRACTION

78

4

ACHILLES’ HORSES, TWOMBLY’S WAR

103

5

ROMANTIC TWOMBLY

133

6

THE PASTORAL STAIN

160

7

PSYCHE: THE DOUBLE DOOR

186

8

TWOMBLY’S LAPSE

210

POSTSCRIPT: WRITING IN LIGHT

234

NOTES 243

BIBLIOGRAPHY 285

INDEX 299