Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- 1 An 'Intimate Commerce with Figures': On Rereading/Rewriting Narratives -- 1 Questers vs. Rewriters: Two Paradigms of Literary Criticism -- 2 Plots of Rereading/Rewriting and Critical Self-Consciousness -- 3...
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- 1 An 'Intimate Commerce with Figures': On Rereading/Rewriting Narratives -- 1 Questers vs. Rewriters: Two Paradigms of Literary Criticism -- 2 Plots of Rereading/Rewriting and Critical Self-Consciousness -- 3 Narrative Figuration and Hermeneutic Desire: A 'Figure in the Carpet' Textshop -- 2 The Figures Readers Make: Interpretive Plots in Reader-Oriented Criticism -- 1 'A Superior Fiction': The Plot of Readability in Phenomenological and Anti-Formalist Criticism -- 2 Ingestive Fantasies and Intersubjective Negotiations in Response Criticism -- 3 Interpretive Choices and Conventions: a Poetics of Reading -- 3 The Figure of Catachresis and the Plot of Unreadability in Deconstruction -- 1 'The Difference that Reading Makes' -- 2 Aleatory Figures and Radical Unreadability -- 3 Deconstruction and Literary Pedagogy -- 4 Deconstruction and Cultural Tropology -- 4 Difficult Figuration: Feminine Signifiers in Male Texts -- 1 Feminist Plots of Reading -- 2 'Can't You Give a Fellow a Clue?' Phallocentric Figuration in James's Fiction -- 3 Women Signifiers in Masculine Texts -- 4 'The Lesson of the Master': Author and Critic as 'Makers of Interest' -- 5 Figures of Exchange: A Poststructuralist Semiotics of Reading -- 1 Poststructuralist Narratology and the Subject of Reading -- 2 The Narrative Circuit: Sociosemiotic Contributions -- A. The Textual Circuit -- B. The Cultural Circuit -- C. The Ideological Circuit -- 3 Triangles of Desire and Figures of Exchange -- 6 'Limp' vs. 'Acute' Criticism: An Interpretive Community Refigures James -- 1 Narrative Seduction and 'Analytic Appreciation': the Author-Reader Dialectic in James's Fiction -- 2 Reading for Secret Figures: the First Hermeneutic Level -- 3 Reading for/against Articulation Models: A Second Hermeneutics.
