Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Stroll in the Labyrinth
Part One. Modernist Moments and Spaces
1. The Spaces of Truth and Cathedral Window Light
2. Epiphany: Applicability of a Modernist Term
3. The Place of Fin-de-Siècle Nature
4. Prime Coordinates in Modernist Cultural Mappings
5. Ironic Realism and the Foundational Romance
6. Cinematic Narration in the Modernist Novel
7. The City of Wo/man: Labyrinth, Wilderness, Garden
Part Two. Metamorphosis, Play, and the Laws of Life
8. Afterthoughts of Hamlet: Goethe's Wilhelm, Joyce's Stephen
9. Educational Experiment in Thomas Mann
10. The Music of Things and the Hieroglyphics of Family Talk in Joyce's Fictions
11. The Ways of Hermes in the Works of Thomas Mann
12. Harrowing Hell with Proust, Joyce, and Mann
13. The Haunted Narrator Before the Gate (Joyce, Kafka, Hesse, Butor)
14. Structures of the Self and Narrative
15. Palimpsest, Essay; History, Myth
By Way of Conclusion: The Artifice of Eternity
General Bibliography
Select Index of Names and Subjects