Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Flux of Time
From Heraclitus to Aristotle
Augustine's esse
Analogies of Time: Kant
Husserl's Stream
The Unmoving "I"?
Chapter 3: From Chaos to Order
Bergson on Pure Duration
Movement of the Soul: Plato
Time and Speech: Plato Again
Language and Ordered Time
Example: Richard II's Soliloquy
Chapter 4: Affect and Language
Pathos, Affect, and Emotion
Theory of Affected Time
Origin of Language from Affect: Herder
Language as Articulation: Humboldt
Conclusion

Chapter 5: Rhythm
Introduction
The Schopenhauer Effect
Rhetoric and Rhythm
Time and Space: From Diderot, Kant to Hegel
Rhythm and Symbolic Expression: Schlegel
Actio in distans: Nietzsche's Theory of Rhythm
Theory of the Continuum of Affect
Rhythm and Analogies of Experience: Kant
Rhythm and Resonance: Bergson
Semantic Sphere: Schopenhauer
Example: King Lear
Chapter 6: Metaphor
Introduction
Metaphoric Transference
Metaphor and Affect: Herder
Kant on Metaphor
Ricoeur's Theory of Metaphor
Metaphoric of Change
Word and Sentence

Metaphor in Modern Drama
Chapter 7: Syntax
Rhyme and Sentence
Syntax in Classical Rhetoric: Cicero
Cassirer on Syntax
Syntax in Lyric
Subject and Substance
Delivery: Hamlet's Instruction
Challenges from Modern Theater
Rhythm and Figuration in Life
Bibliography
Index