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