1. Against interpretation
2. The artist as exemlary sufferer
The anthropologist as hero
The literary criticism of George Lukács
Nathalie Sarraute and the novel
4. Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson
The imagination of disaster
Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures
A not on novels and films
Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death
Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition
One culture and the new sensibility.
The artist as exemplary sufferer
The anthropologist as hero
The literary criticism of Georg Lukács
Nathalie Sarraute and the novel
Spiritual style in the films of Robert Bresson
The imagination of disaster
Jack Smith's Flaming creatures
A note on novels and films
Psychoanalysis and Norman O. Brown's Life against death
Happenings: an art of radical juxtaposition
One culture and the new sensibility
Afterword: thirty years later.