Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. METAPHOR -- Chapter 1. Rethinking Metaphors and Concepts -- Chapter 2. Radical Tropology: "Dador" -- Part II. ISLAND -- Chapter 3. Tradition, Death and Poetics: Insular Transits in "X y XX" -- Part III. ALLEGORY -- Chapter 4. The Speculum of Historiography -- Chapter 5. Allegory and Futurity in the Eras Imaginarias -- Appendix: Stéphane Mallarmé, "Prose (pour des Esseintes)" -- Bibliography -- Index