Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations of Works -- 1. READING AS CONDUCT -- 1. Direction -- 2. Speech Acts -- 3. Religion as Doing -- 4. Obligations -- 5. The Aspern Touch -- 6. Reading as Necrophilia -- 7. Cryptonymy -- 8. Distant Voices -- 9. Literature's Secret -- 10. What's in a Name? -- 11. Acting Up -- 2. FUGAL READING -- 1. A-Theory of Reading -- 2. Translations -- 3. Translating Theory -- 4. Literature's Others -- 5. Reading De Quincey -- 6. Metareading? -- 7. Spacecritics -- 8. Trace -- 9. Fugues -- 3. DOUBLE READING -- 1. Equivocations -- 2. De Man's Irony -- 3. Forms of Victorian Fiction -- 4. Permanent Parabasis -- 5. Irony as Others -- 6. Telepathy -- 7. Amazing -- 8. Good Reading is Sensitivity to Irony -- 4. PROTOCOLS OF READING -- 1. What is Education? -- 2. What's Perverse About Good Reading? -- 3. The "Right Way" to Read Yeats -- 4. Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen -- 5. What is "It?" -- 6. The Crisis in Criticism -- 7 Protocols for Catachreses -- 5. READING PARABLE -- 1. Spectres of Marks -- 2. The Visor Effect -- 3. Reading the "The Minister's Black Veil" -- 4. Is the Black Veil a Parable? -- 5. Miller's Parable of Paradox -- 6. Death is a Linguistic Predicament? -- 7. A Passion for the Secret -- 6. JUST READING -- 1. Justices -- 2. The Dangers of Reading "The Foundling" -- 3. Misreading -- 4. The Return to Philology -- 5. "I" Take Responsibility in Reading -- 6. Justice as Irresponse to Law -- 7. Finding Out -- CONCLUSION: TEACHING READING -- CODA INTERVIEW: FOR THE READER-TO-COME -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.