List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Amoeba: figures of abstraction, Surrealist influence, and the Revolution of the Word; 2. Fish: evolving the artwork in James Joyce’s ‘Shem the Penman’ (1927); 3. Lizard: Gottfried Benn, ‘the “dark” side of modernism’, and transition’s ‘pineal eye’; 4. Bird: editorial flights with Eugene Jolas; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index .