Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Approaches 1
5. Opening Signals in Narrative 9
6. Natalie, or Balzac’s Hidden Reader 23
7. La Peau de chagrin: The Novel as Threshold 37
8. Hugo’s William Shakespeare: The Promontory and the Infinite 48
9. The Edifice of the Book 58
10. V.H.: The Effaced Author or the “I” of Infinity 67
11. Sartre, Hugo, a Grandfather 82
12. The Will to Ecstasy: Baudelaire’s “La Chevelure” 90
13. “Le Cygne”: The Artifact of Memory 97
14. Lyricism and Impersonality: The Example of Baudelaire 103
15. Erosion and Discontinuity in Flaubert’s Novembre 113
16. From Novembre to L’Education sentimentale: Communication and the Commonplace 121
17. Idyll and Upheaval in L’Education sentimentale 130
18. Flaubert and the Articulations of Polyvalence 136
19. The Temptation of the Subject 148
20. Stendhal, Reader of Rousseau 164
21. Vie de Henry Brulard: Irony and Continuity 183
22. T. S. Eliot and the Romantic Heresy 191
23. Notes 207
24. Credits 221
25. Index 223