Contents: David Hillman/Adam Phillips: Introduction - Marjorie Garber: Third Person Interruption - Hugh Haughton: Xanadu and Porlock: thoughts on composition and interruption - Stanley Cavell: Interruption and Repetition - Anne Alvarez: Autism and Uninterruptibility - Anita Sokolsky: Breathlessness and Interruption in Austen's Emma and Godard's Breathless - Gillian Beer: The Pink Frock and the Green Satin Night-Gown: interrupting death's interruptions - Victor Burgin: Armide, a train of thought - John Wilkinson: A Poem for Liars - Joseph Rykwert: Building - at a price - Maud Ellmann: Fly, Interrupted - Stephen Tifft: Catharsis Interrupta - George Benjamin: 'Interruptions' - Joan Acocella: Breaking The Trance - Gabriel Josipovici: Interruption and the Last Part.
The Editors: David Hillman is lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is the author of Shakespeare's Entrails: Belief, Scepticism and the Interior Body. Adam Phillips is a writer and psychoanalyst. Formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charring Cross Hospital in London, he is the author of twelve books, and edited the sixteen-volume New Penguin Freud translation.