Introduction:The legs of sense 1
Part Ⅰ Dialogue and inscription 11
1.Othello,Bakhtin and the death(s) of dialogue 11
2.P.s.:Plato’s scene of reading in the Protagoras 45
Part Ⅱ Parables of exteriority:materiality in “classic”American texts 89
3.Too legit to quit:the dubious genealogies of pragmatism 89
4.Poe’s Foot d’Or:ruinous rhyme and Nietzschean recurrence (sound) 105
5.Only the dead know Brooklyn ferry (voice) 127
6.The letters of the law:“Bartleby” as hypogrammatic romance (letters) 152
Part Ⅲ Pre-posterous modernisms 181
7.Conrad’s fault (signature) 181
8.Miss Emily,c’est moi :the defacement of modernism in Faulkner (inscription and social form) 208
9.Hitchcock and the death of (Mr.) Memory(technology of the visible) 227
Coda Post-humanist reading 260
Index 265