Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. Critical Factions / Critical Fictions 17
5. From Work to Text 73
6. The Supplement of Copula: Philosophy before Linguistics 82
7. Semiology and Rhetoric 121
8. What Is an Author? 141
9. The Text, the World, the Critic 161
10. Myth and Ritual in Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 189
11. The Museum's Furnace: Notes toward a Contextual Reading of Bouvard and Pécuchet 213
12. On the Interpretation of Ordinary Language: A Parable of Pascal 239
13. The Algebra of Literature: The Wolf's Game 260
14. The Schizophrenic and Language: Surface and Depth in Lewis Carroll and Antonin Artaud 277
15. Freud and the Sandman 296
16. Decentering the Image: The "Project" of "American" Poetics? 322
17. Valéry and the Poetics of Language 359
18. Roland and the Poetics of Memory 374
19. Generating Lautréamont's Text 404
20. Directions for Further Research 421
21. Contributors 423
22. Bibliography 443
23. Name Index 465
24. Subject Index 469