Acknowledgments
Introduction.
Figures of Duplicity Paulhan and Contemporary Literary Theory
1. Allegories of Ethnography
i. Malagasy Proverbs
ii. Sacred Language
2. Underwriting the Personal: Modesty and the récits
i. Jean Paulhan and Jacques Maast
ii. Modesty, Mania and Other Wor(l)ds
iii. Coda: Progress in Love?
3. Blanchot reading Paulhan
i. Who Said Anything About Terror?
ii. Poetic Justice
4. Resistance, Collaboration, and the Postwar Literary Purge in France
5. Domestic Spaces, Aesthetic Traces
i. Cubes, Cubes, and More Cubes
ii. Painting by Letters
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index