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| Foreword: Required Reading or "Some of Us, at Least" | |
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| Prelude | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Realism Affirmed and Dismantled in Adam Bede | |
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| Adam Bede and Romanticism | |
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| Adam Bede as Paradigmatic Realist Novel | |
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| Challenges to the Paradigm of Realism in Adam Bede | |
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| Four Passages Challenging Mimetic Realism | |
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| What Do These Passages Really Say? | |
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| The Irony of Mistaken Interpretation in Adam Bede | |
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| Hetty Sorrel as Sophist Figure | |
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| Adam Bede as a Story about the Reading of Signs and as a Text to be Read | |
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| Repetition in Adam Bede | |
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| The Community Restored | |
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| Reading Middlemarch Right for Today | |
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| Totalization Affirmed and Undermined in Middlemarch | |
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| Versions of Totalization | |
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| Middlemarch as Pseudo-History | |
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| Demystification of the Connection of Narrative and History | |
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| Totalizing Metaphors in Middlemarch | |
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| Middlemarch as Fractal Pattern | |
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| Middlemarch as Web | |
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| Middlemarch as Stream | |
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| Minutiae in Middlemarch | |
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| Triumph of Metaphorical Totalization | |
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| The Optical Metaphor | |
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| Creative Seeing as the Will to Power: The Parable of the Pier-Glass | |
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| Human Beings as False Interpreters | |
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| Chapter Seventeen of Adam Bede: Truth-Telling Narration | |
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| Down with the Art of the Unreal! | |
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| The Language of Realism | |
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| Performative Undecidability | |
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| Returning to Middlemarch: Interpretation as Naming and (Mis)Reading | |
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| Interpretation as the Creation of Totalizing Emblems | |
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| Money as Metaphor | |
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| The Boomerang Effect of the Monetary Metaphor | |
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| Money as Universal Measure | |
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| The Uses of Art | |
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| Conclusions About Metaphor | |
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| O Aristotle! | |
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| The Roar on the Other Side of Silence | |
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| The Ruin of Totalization in a Cascade of Misreadings: A Summary Description of the Ground Gained So Far | |
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| Form as Repetition in Unlikeness | |
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| A Finale in Which Nothing is Final | |
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| Dorothea's Limitless "Yes" | |
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| Dorothea as Ariadne | |
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| George Eliot's Life and Work as an Uneven Tissue of Ungrounded Repetitions | |
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| Coda | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |