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Tables of Contents for Chronicles of Disorder
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction Beckett's Choice
1
9
Entering the Literary Field
10
18
Joyce and Proust: Involuntary Epics
10
7
``It Is Not'': Juxtaposition and Ethical Judgment in ``Dante and the Lobster''
17
7
Versions of Modernism
24
4
Contact with the Outside World
28
25
Contesting ``Social Reality''
28
4
``Contact with Outer Reality'' in Murphy
32
9
Watt: Novel of Resistance or Accident of War?
41
12
Rewriting Modernism in the Nouvelles
53
30
Primitivism in the Tone of Polite Conversation
53
3
Writing and Begging in ``The End''
56
8
From the Metropolis to the ``Text''
64
9
Author or Writing Subject? Beckett and Postmodern Fiction
73
10
Molloy (one): Molloy, the Subject
83
19
Molloy's Class Consciousness
83
5
The Production of the Story
88
3
Molloy and the Police
91
6
Subjectivity as a Modernist Universal
97
5
Molloy (two): Moran, the Agent
102
22
The Agent as Storyteller
102
5
``Strong Enough at Last to Act No More''
107
3
The Terms of the Story: Agent, Voice, Purpose
110
6
Structures without Agents: Beckett and the Postwar Critique of Narrative
116
8
A Contest of Nightmares: The Unnamable and 1984
124
37
``Incomprehensible Uneasiness'' in the Void
124
7
The Flaneur in a Jar
131
6
The Reinvention of the New and the Aesthetic of Failure
137
12
Nightmare of Commitment: Orwell's ``Inside the Whale'' and 1984
149
12
Epilogue Engagement, Ecriture, Autonomy: The Displacement of Politics in Postwar Critical Theory
161
8
Notes
169
16
Works Cited
185
6
Index
191