Contents -- Preface -- A.E. Malloch -- PART I: FORMS OF INDECISION -- Empson's Generalized Ambiguities -- Custom and Utterance in Hamlet -- Portraits, Effigies, and the Narrative Impulse -- PART II: THE ETHICS OF THE UNSAID -- Jane Austen and the Uses of Silence -- Escaping the Cave: Luce Irigaray and Her Feminist Critics -- From Grammar's Pan to Logic's Fire: Intentionality and Chaucer's Friar's Tale -- PART III: NETWORKS -- Boethius, the Liberal Arts, and Early Medieval Political Theory -- James Joyce - Literary Engineer -- Academic Tenure in the Perspectives of Competition and Collegiality -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.