Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Chiasmus, Word, and Flesh
  • Chiasmus, Paradox, and Contradiction
  • "Primacy of Language": Tyranny of Words
  • The Corporeal World
  • Worlds within Worlds
  • Chiasmus, Closure, and Openness
  • History as Presence: Paz en la guerra
  • History and the Novel
  • History and Presence
  • Historical Carlism
  • Carlism and Intrahistory
  • The Poetics of Intrahistory
  • Art of Character: Pedro Antonio
  • Art of Character: Ignacio Iturriondo
  • Collective Character: The Siege of Bilbao
  • Above the Battle: Pachico Zabalbide
  • Word and Flesh: Ideocracia and the Hombre de carne y hueso
  • Invention of the Nivola
  • Amor y pedagogia and the "Linguistic Turn"
  • Niebla: Person Depersonalized
  • The Nivolesque Hero
  • Structures of Mist
  • Structure of Text
  • Theme and Variations
  • Repetition and Regression
  • Structure of Story: Shape of Life
  • Novels of Passion: Monsters of Will
  • The Prologue as Novel: Realism as Desire
  • Depths of Desire: Nada menos que todo un hombre
  • Abel Sanchez: Ontological Envy
  • Tulio Montalban y Julio Macedo: Mask and Man
  • Depths of Desire: Twice Two Mothers
  • La tia Tula: Consanguinity and the Cult of Family
  • Miguel de Unamuno: Signature and Presence
  • Lacquer Boxes: Como se hace una novela and the Return of the Nivola
  • The Return of Intrahistoria: San Manuel Bueno, martir y tres historias mas
  • From Manuel Bueno to Saint Manuel the Good
  • Tres historias mas: Theme and Variations
  • Don Sandalio: Image and Reality
  • Flesh and Spirit: Two Histories of Love.