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Tables of Contents for Signs Taken for Wonders
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vi
1. The Soul and the Harpy Reflections on the Aims and Methods of Literary Historiography
1
41
2. The Great Eclipse Tragic Form as the Deconsecration of Sovereignty
42
41
3. Dialectic of Fear
83
26
4. Homo Palpitans Balzac's Novels and Urban Personality
109
21
5. Clues
130
27
6. Kindergarten
157
25
7. The Long Goodbye Ulysses and the End of Liberal Capitalism
182
27
8. From The Waste Land to the Artificial Paradise
209
31
9. The Spell of Indecision
240
9
10. The Moment of Truth
249
13
11. On Literary Evolution
262
17
Notes
279
31
Index
310