Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Montaigne and Transcendence (1953) -- The Inward Generation (1955) -- Poetic Nothingness: On a Hermetic Sonnet by Mallarmé (1955) -- The Temptation of Permanence (1955) -- Keats and Hölderlin (1956) -- Situation of the Novel (1956) -- Process and Poetry (1956) -- Thematic Criticism and the Theme of Faust (1957) -- A New Vitalism: Harold Bloom (1962) -- Giraudoux (1963) -- Heidegger Reconsidered (1964) -- Spacecritics: J. Hillis Miller and Joseph Frank (1964) -- Sartre's Confessions (1964) -- A Modern Master: Jorge Luís Borges (1964) -- Whatever Happened to André Gide? (1965) -- What Is Modern? (1965) -- The Mask of Albert Camus (1965) -- Modern Poetics in France and Germany (1965) -- The Literature of Nihilism (1966) -- Madame de Staël and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1966) -- Introduction to the Poetry of John Keats (1966) -- The Riddle of Hölderlin (1970) -- Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (1970) -- Foreword to Carol Jacobs, The Dissimulating Harmony (1978) -- Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.