附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.
Aristotle's Oedipus complex -- Narrative lines -- The end of the line -- Beginnings -- Middles -- Balzac's serpent -- "The figure in the carpet" -- Multiplications of the line -- Plato's double diegesis -- Ariachne's broken woof -- R.? -- The anacoluthonic lie -- Indirect discourses and irony -- Apollyon in Cranford -- Coda.