Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editor's Note ix
4. Editor's Introduction: Literature as Theory xi
5. 1 History in Saint-John Perse [1953] 1
6. 2 Valery and Stendhal [1954] 13
7. 3 Classicism and Voltaire's Historiography [1958] 26
8. 4 Pride and Passion in the Contemporary Novel [1959] 33
9. 5 Stendhal and Tocqueville [1960] 42
10. 6 Memoirs of a Dutiful Existentialist: Simone de Beauvoir1 [r96r] 50
11. 7 Marcel Proust [1962] 56
12. 8 Marivaudage, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith [1963] 71
13. 9 Formalism and Structuralism in Literature and the Human Sciences [1963] 80
14. 10 Racine, Poet of Glory [1964] 96
15. 11 Monsters and Demigods in Hugo [1965] 125
16. 12 Bastards and the Antihero in Sartre 134
17. 13 Critical Reflections on Literary Studies 160
18. 14 Narcissism: The Freudian Myth Demythified by Proust 175
19. 15 Theory and Its Terrors 194
20. 16 Love and Hate in Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain [1990] 214
21. 17 Innovation and Repetition 230
22. 18 Mimetic Desire in the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky 246
23. 19 Conversion in Literature and Christianity 263
24. 20 The Passionate Oxymoron in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 274
25. Sources 291
26. Notes 293
27. Index 305