附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-282) and index.
Chapter 1: "The argument': the play of disorder -- Chapter 2: Wuthering Heights and the 'play of the text' -- Chapter 3: Science's interplay with disorder: autonomous systems, fractal contours and dream-worlds -- Chapter 4: The zigzag route of Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Chapter 5: Triangulated psyches and desiring machines -- Chapter 6: Mots d'Ordre regimes in Kafka and Dickens -- Chapter 7: The world's worlding: marginalization, hegemony, and disorder -- Chapter 8: Expectations of difference: Kathy Acker's regime of the senseless -- Chapter 9: The world's worlding: history and literary disorder -- Chapter 10: The fractal worlds of the Henry IV plays -- Chapter 11: Mapping the inconceivable: disordering taxonomies -- Chapter 12: The order of prizing and the devouring order: Peter Taylor's A Summons to Memphis and Patrick Süskind's Perfume.