Introduction: hearing voices
ch. 1. The voices of narrative, lyric, and drama: The three characteristics of narrative
Lyric
Drama
ch. 2. "Jogona's great treasure": narrative, lyric, and dramatic intelligibility: Intelligibility: Comprehensiveness and cohesion
Conclusions
ch. 3. "Intoxicated with intimacy": the lyric voice in John Donne's Holy sonnets: Unruly autobiography
Donne's Holy sonnets
Donne's lyric self
The lyric voice
ch. 4. "The circle of chalk": narrative voice in Primo Levi's The periodic table: The periodic table
The aspiration to narrative
Narrative instability
"The rich and messy domain"
ch. 5. "Survival and distance": the dramatic voice in Robert Wilson's Einstein on the beach: Einstein on the beach
Dramatic voice in Einstein
The dramatic voice and religion
The dramatic self
ch.. 6. "Harmonized chaos": the mixed voice of Coleridge's Biographia literaria: The biographia literaria
The form of the Biographia
Dissociation, fragmentation, and incoherence
Harmony and unity
Ramifications: the "mixed" self
ch. 7. Conclusion: genre and instability.