Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Author's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Facing Language: Wordsworth's First Poetic Spirits ("Blest Babe," "Drowned Man," "Blind Beggar") -- 2. Aesthetic Ideology and Material Inscription: On Hegel's Aesthetics and Keats's Urn -- 3. Spectre Shapes: "The Body of Descartes?" -- 4. Reading for Example: A Metaphor in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy -- 5. Towards a Fabulous Reading: Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lie in the Extramoral Sense" -- 6. Reading Over Endless Histories: Henry James's "The Altar of the Dead" -- 7. Ending Up/Taking Back (with Two Postscripts on Paul de Man's Historical Materialism) -- 8. The Future Past of Literary Theory -- Appendix: Interview: "Deconstruction at Yale" -- Index