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Tables of Contents for Reading the Symptom
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Jean-Joseph Goux
1. American Literary Naturalism and the Limits of Revisionism
1
20
2. Ludic Naturalism: Determinacy and Indeterminacy in Vandover and the Brute
21
36
3. The Strategy of Desire in McTeague
57
52
The Economico-Libidinal Nexus of Desire
57
8
Passions for Drinks, Appetites for Food, and Orgies of Gold
65
12
The Economy of Language and the Language of Economy
77
9
The Semiotic Violence of Desire
86
6
Syntactic Involutions and Negative Precipitations
92
7
Tarrying with the (II)logic of Capitalism
99
10
4. A Rhythmanalytical Approach to the Problematic of Everydayness in Sister Carrie
109
30
5. Reading the Symptom: History without Teleology
139
24
Notes
163
10
Bibliography
173