Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION The anthropometric turn -- GROUNDWORK: SOME TERMS AND TENETS -- THE VOICE-MACHINE COMPLEX -- MAPPING MODERNISM: CRISIS IN FORM -- THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF MODERNISM -- TOWARDS THEORY -- 1 Narrating the animal, amputating the soul -- I MAPPING THE ANIMAL -- Discontinuity: Marx and Wilde -- The measure of the human -- Darwin to Nietzsche: down the shaft of being -- II DARWIN'S INTERMITTENT CHRONICLES -- Narrating the animal -- The missing link: 'metaphysical man' -- Excursus: Hegel's Bildungsroman of Spirit -- III NIETZSCHE'S TROPOLOGICAL CREATURES -- The interesting animal -- Antinarrative (I): becoming what one is -- Antinarrative (II): the rapture of recurrence -- CREATURES CONDEMNED TO MEANING -- 2 Conrad and technology: homo ex machina -- Rational animals, affective machines -- I SCHOPENHAUER'S BAROQUE SYMPHONY -- Humanism without the human: becoming what one is not -- Schopenhauer as novelist: a symphonic world-poem -- The mechanical inhuman -- II CONRAD'S ACCIDENTAL TRAGEDIES -- Lord Jim: disturbing the kosmos -- Nostromo: material interests and mechanomorphism -- FALLING INTO CONSCIOUSNESS -- 3 The Lawrentian transcendent: after the fall -- The decline of the West -- I HEIDEGGER'S FUNDAMENTAL BEING -- Propriating metaphysical man -- After the Fall: narrating finitude -- Full disclosure: the human without the 'human' -- II LAWRENCE'S IMPERSONAL SOURCE -- Sons and Lovers: Soul mining -- Women in Love: apocalypse now -- ANTHROPOS AGONISTES -- 4 Woolf's luminance: time out of mind -- Bergson, Lewis and the rehumanisation of time -- Virginia Woolf: timelines and lifelines -- I MRS DALLOWAY: WAVES AND PA RTICLES -- Translations: human, nature, technology -- The hermeneutical effect: resonance and rupture.

II TO THE LIGHTHOUSE: LESSONS IN DARKNESS -- Narrative diffusion: rhythm and melody -- Several folds of blackness: X-rays and impersonality -- OUT OF TIME, OUT OF MIND -- 5 Doubting Beckett: voices descant, stories still -- I MOLLOY: BECKETT'S COMEDY OF UNCERTAINTY -- Drifting bones in a dismantled world -- The narrating mind: 'Sick with thought and fastened to a dying animal' -- II MALONE DIES: FAILED ACTS OF BIRTH AND DEATH -- Agitating the calmative -- Falling in and out of nature -- Intermezzo: a poetics of impotence -- III THE UNNAMABLE: TWO SURFACES AND NO THICKNESS -- Descartes's dream revisited -- From obligation to compulsion: taking the measure -- Dehumanising narrative the voice-machine -- BECOMING HUMAN: THE DIFFERENCE OF 'HUMAN-NESS' -- CONCLUSION Humanness unbound -- Beckett's theoretical inheritors -- Modernism by other means -- Notes -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- Index.