Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. List of Illustrations 9
4. Preface 11
5. Introduction: On Symbolic Resistance 25
6. PART ONE. Discourses of Domination
7. 1. Discourses of Initiation: On Some Contradictions in Balzac's Encounter with the Sign 85
8. 2. Newspaper Culture: Institutions of Discourse; Discourse of Institutions 117
9. PART TWO. Corrosive Intertextualities
10. 3. Counter-Images: Daumier and Le Charivari 149
11. 4. Counter-Humorists: Strategies of Resistance in Marx and Flaubert 198
12. 5. Ideological Voyages: On a Flaubertian Dis-Orient-ation 227
13. PART THREE. Absolute Counter-Discourse
14. 6. The Paradoxes of Distinction: The Prose Poem as Prose 261
15. 7. The Dialectics of the Prose Poem 306
16. Bibliography of Critical Works 345
17. Index 357