'Surfacing' the politics of desire: literature, feminism, and myth

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Pierre et Jean, or the Erring of Oedipus

2. The Error of Narcissus

3. The Three Virtues of Imperceptibility, Indiscernibility, and Impersonality

4. Becoming-flower, Becoming-imperceptible: Oedipus, Narcissus, and Their Lines of Flight in Sarrasine and Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu

5. Beyond the Dialectic of Self and Other: Towards a Thought of the Surface

6. 'Une jouissance d'epiderme': From Platonic Height and Depth to the Deleuzian Surface in Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index