Preface
Acknowledgments
I. The Otherness of Poetic Language
1. Reading, Otherness, and Cultural Contact
II. Nonsense, Dream, and Chaos: The Otherness of Literary Language
2. Nonsense and Metacommunication: Reflections on Lewis Carroll
3. Joyce, Cage, and Chaos: Finnegan's Wake, Roaratoria, and French Feminism
III. Witches, Mothers, and Male Fantasies: The Otherness of Woman
4. Seduced by Witches: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter in the Context of New England Witchcraft Fictions
5. The Multiple Lives of Addie Bundren's Dead Body: On William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
IV. Trauma, Transgression, and Transference: The Otherness of Gender
6. Traversing Spaces of Otherness: Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
7. "While She Lives She Invites Murder": On Marguerite Duras's The Malady of Death
Notes
Works Cited
Index