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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface | On “Timeliness”
Acknowledgments
Introduction | Figuring Anachrony
Kurt Gödel and Other Liars: The Metaleptic Methods of Modernity
The Seventh Labor of Hercules
Methods
Strange Temporalities: Metalepsis
The Time of the Modern
Part I: Figures of Opposition
Chapter One | Paradox
“Inherent Opposites, / Of Essential Unity”: Wallace Stevens’s “Connoisseur of Chaos”
Postscript: Serendipity
Post-Postscript: Ports of Call
Chapter Two | Revision
“The Brawling of a Sparrow in the Eaves”: Revision and the Romantic Imagination in W. B. Yeats
Vision: Flights into Fairyland
Revision: “The Scholars”
Re: Vision
Part II: Figures of Recollection
Chapter Three | Memory
Shellfish Readings: On H.D., Nachträglichkeit, and Anagrammatic Wanderings
Echoes
Deferred Contexts: Freud’s Nachträglichkeit and Saussure’s Anagrams
Trilogy
Chapter Four | Tradition
“Strange Spars of Knowledge and Dimmed Wares of Price”: Ezra Pound, “Portrait d’une Femme,” and the Literary Anthology
Part III: Figures of Self
Chapter Five | Voice
We’re, Like, Talking on the Page: Sound, Simile, and the [Langston] Hues of African American Verse
Proem: Smiles
Similitude
Home Work
Chapter Six | Lyric Identity
“The Patient Is No Longer Here”: T. S. Eliot’s Late Lyric Moment
Little Gidding
Disturbing the Dust
The Second Violin
Now Here This: Zero Summer
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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