Interfaces of the Word -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Cleavage and Growth -- 1. Transformations of the Word and Alienation -- II. The Sequestration of Voice -- 2. The Writer's Audience Is Always a Fiction -- 3. Media Transformation: The Talked Book -- 4. African Talking Drums and Oral Noetics -- 5. "I See What You Say": Sense Analogues for Intellect -- III. Closure and Print -- 6. Typographic Rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger, and Shakespeare -- 7. From Epithet to Logic: Miltonic Epic and the Closure of Existence -- 8. The Poem as a Closed Field: The Once New Criticism and the Nature of Literature -- 9. Maranatha: Death and Life in the Text of the Book -- 10. From Mimesis to Irony: Writing and Print as Integuments of Voice -- IV. Present and Future -- 11 . Voice and the Opening of Closed Systems -- Index.