This book is an investigation of authors at the crossroads of texts, of history an geography, of ethics. Different as they are the essays in this book also talk to each other. \nShakespeare, Bloom and Fletcher\n \nModernist Archeology: Ur-Eliot\n \nE.L. Doctorow's Sixth Sense\n \nIn the Lineage of Shehrezad\n \nThe House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe \n