Table of Contents

1. Does Literature Think? 1 PART I From Law to Myth 2. Enlightenment and Paranomia 49 3. The Concept of the Mythical 90 4. Philosophy's Need for Antigone 116 PART II Theatrical Matters 5. The Gesture of the Sirens 161 6. The Dream Reality of the Ruin 198 PART III Eluding the Name 7. Research, Essay, Failure 231 8. A Lucid Drunkenness 249 9. DeLillo in Greece 292 10. Beyond the Damaged Life 323

About the Author

Stathis Gourgouris teaches Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford, 1996).

Reviews

"...a rewarding and exciting book." - Colloquy