Table of Contents for The Flesh of Words

Translator's Note

The Excursions of the Word

I.                    The Politics of the Poem

1.      From Wordsworth to Mandelstam: The Transports of Liberty

2.      Rimbaud: Voices and Bodies

II.                 Theologies of the Novel

1.      The Body of the Letter: Bible, Epic, Novel

2.      Balzac and the Island of the Book

3.      Proust: War, Truth, Book

III.               The Literature of the Philosophers

1.      Althusser, Don Quixote, and the State of the Text

2.      Deleuze, Bartleby, and the Literary Formula

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