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Tables of Contents for Reading for the Plot
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Reading for the Plot
3
34
Narrative Desire
37
25
The Novel and the Guillotine, or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir
62
28
Freud's Masterplot: A Model for Narrative
90
23
Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations
113
30
The Mark of the Beast: Prostitution, Serialization, and Narrative
143
28
Retrospective Lust, or Flaubert's Perversities
171
45
Narrative Transaction and Transference
216
22
An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
238
26
Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding
264
22
Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom!
286
27
In Conclusion: Endgames and the Study of Plot
313
12
Notes
325