Preface
1. Reading for the Plot
2. Narrative Desire
3. The Novel and the Guillotine, or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir
4. Freud''s Masterplot: A Model for Narrative
5. Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations
6. The Mark of the Beast: Prostitution, Serialization, and Narrative
7. Retrospective Lust, or Flaubert''s Perversities
8. Narrative Transaction and Transference
9. An Unreadable Report: Conrad''s Heart of Darkness
10. Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding
11. Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom!
In Conclusion: Endgames and the Study of Plot
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