Preface 1. Toward a Philosophy of Literary Voice Person as Voice: Thinking about a Metaphor Three Elements of a Comprehensive Philosophy of Literary Voice A History/Theory of the Relation of Voice to Person A Theory of Communicative Context A Stylistics Based on Speech Orientation The Speaking Subject: Our Most Comprehensive Premise as Derived from Emile Benveniste and Julia Kristeva Dialogism, Speaking Subject, and the Critique of Existing Theory of Voice Before Grammatology After (and beyond) Grammatology 2. Fish and Bird: Minimal Articulation The Idea of the Call Regional Intentionality The Chasm of the Inarticulate Birdsong Exclamations, Cries, and Other Transgressions Aa!! 3. Early Modern Speaking Subjects Grammatical and Legal Position of the Speaker: John Donne and René Descartes Scenes of Parting: Donne and the Metaphysical Poets 4. Bardic Voice: Vestiges of the Oral and the National The Voice of the Living God in the Delphic Oracle and the Book of Jonah Vestiges of the Oral and the National:Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Bardic in England The Exiled Voice in Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz Phenomenology of Exile and Voice Bardic Voice and the Exiled Epilogue Silencing of Voice Sociology of the Polish Fatherland Vachel Lindsay and American Bardic 5. De-tonation: Another Mode of the Minimal De-Tonation in Nineteenth-Century Theory: Friedrich Nietzsche The Passage: Jacques Derrida The Periphery: Henri Meschonnic 6. Reading the De-toned Text Voice Determinate and Indeterminate Postmodern Indetermine Voice De-tonation Strong De-tonation Uncanny De-tonation For the Subject Notes Index.