Preface Part I. Kant, Romantic Irony, Unheimlichkeit: 1. Border crossings in Kant 2. Kierkegaard on the economics of living poetically 3. Freud's 'Das Unheimliche': the intricacies of textual uncanniness Part II. The Romantic Heritage and Modernist Fiction: 4. Aesthetic redemption: the Thyrsus in Nietzsche, Baudelaire, and Wagner 5. The 'beautiful soul': Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes and the aesthetics of Romanticism 6. Proust and Kafka: uncanny narrative openings 7. Textualizing immoralism: Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Gide's L'Immoraliste 8. Fishing the waters of impersonality: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Epilogue: narrative and music in Kafka and Blanchot: the 'singing' of Josefine Notes Index.
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