Acknowledgments
Introduction: The legs of sense
Part IDialogue and inscription
1. Othello, Bakhtin and the deaths of dialogue
2. P.s.: Platos scene of reading in the Protagoras
Part IIParables of exteriority: materiality in "classic" American texts
3. Too legit to quit: the dubious genealogies of pragmatism
4. Poes Foot dOr: 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 IIIPre-posterous modernisms
7. Conrads fault signature
8. Miss Emily, cest 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