Introduction; Part I. Ostension: 1. Non-construction: history, structure, and the ostensive movement in literature; 2. One last theme: literature as insignificance; 3. The hum of literature: ostension in language; 4. The torturer's horse: what poems see in pictures; Part II. Non-Epiphany: 5. Clearings in the way: non-epiphany in Wordsworth; 6. Nil reconsidered: criticism, actuality, and 'To Autumn'; 7. Possession of the sublime, repression of insignificance; Part III. Return of the Same: 8. The absent dead: Wordsworth, Byron, and the epitaph; 9. Disposing of the body: the common sene of the romantic moment of dying; Conclusion; The ethics of suspending knowledge.
