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Tables of Contents for Candor and Perversion
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
I. INTELLECTUAL CRAFTSMANSHIP
Nineteen These on Literature
3
6
Preplexing Lessons: Is There a Core Tradition in the Humanities?
9
10
American Education Against Itself
19
5
Education: Higher and Lower
24
12
How to Read a Book
36
7
The Spiritual in Art
43
11
How We Think at the Movies
54
13
Life Before Language: Nathalie Sarraute
67
6
Second Thoughts on a Wooden Horse: Michel Foucault
73
8
Art at First Sight
81
7
Radical Skepticism and How We Got Here
88
7
From The Swiss Family Robinson to Narratus Interruptus
95
6
Teaching the Unteachable: Kipling, Proust, Nietzsche & Co.
101
15
The Alibi of Art
116
19
II. A CRITIC'S JOB OF WORK
Tracking the Avant-Garde in France
The Social Institutions of Modern Art
135
11
Manet, the Missing Link
146
11
Unlikely Pen Pals: George Sand and Gustave Flaubert
157
4
Sara Bernhardt, the Sacred Monster
161
11
Yuppies Along the Seine: The Impressionists
172
7
Living by Words: Mallarme
179
11
The Present Place of Futurism
190
8
Early Picasso: Mailer's Version
198
13
Captions or Illustrations?: Braque's Handbook
211
22
The Story of Hans/Jean/Kaspar Arp
233
6
Cocteau, Native Son of Paris
239
5
Confidence Man: Marcel Duchamp
244
18
The Last Cause (An Experimental Play)
262
14
From Aestheticism to Fascism
276
9
America, Africa, and Elsewhere
An American Roman-Fleuve: The Beulah Quintet
285
8
``The Great American Thing'': O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
293
15
Candor and Perversion: Man Ray
308
16
Born-Again African: Leopold Senghor
324
20
A Masterpiece from Senegal
344
6
Blank and White: Illuminating Octavio Paz
350
5
Arthur Miller's Account of Himself
355
7
Naipaul on the American South
362
10
A Poet's Stories: W. S. Merwin
372
7
Quantum Tales: Renata Adler
379
7
Scandal and Stereotypes on Broadway: The New Puritanism
386
5
Credits
391
4
Index
395