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INDEX actuality and categorization, 31 and death, 142, 146, 154 157, 162 163 and diagram, 30 and event, 26, 85, 95, 98, 101, 110, 149 and evolution, 167 and exhaustion, 174 and force, 29 and human, 89 and incipiencies, 51 and nonexistent real, 34 and past, 151, 167 and possibility, 28, 154, 167, 190 and potentiality, 14, 25, 36, 89, 91, 137 138, 140, 142, 163, 170 and presence, 150 and problem, 176 and real, 36, 44, 151 and resemblance, 92, 140, 171, 176 and self-differing, 35 and virtual, 36, 44, 49, 50, 55, 66, 84, 90 92, 95, 97 98, 100 101, 110, 147 149, 151 152, 160, 166 168, 171 172, 175 176, 183, 196 and will, 134 in Bergson, 151, 155 156, 159, 167 in Lukacs, 37 in Sallis, 154 levels of, 88 outside of, 34 affect and animals, 25 26 and assemblage, 47 and capture, 56 57 and diagram, 30 and emotion, 26, 35, 42, 67, 70 and event, 29 and Freud, 65 66 and haecceities, 130 and language, 24 25 and nonhuman, 26, 119, 126, 139 and novel, 38, 45, 62 and personal, 67 and race, 65, 67, 71 and sensation, 47 and signifiers, 25 in Spinoza, 25, 43, 47, 66, 185 and virtuality, 41, 50, 52, 55 in Invisible Man, 69 73 in Tess of the D Urbervilles, 125 in The House of Mirth, 42, 48 49, 52 53, 55 57 Agamben, Giorgio Infancy and History, 12, 20, 76 The Coming Community, 15, 176 American Renaissance, 169, 173 animal and evolution, 3 4 and human, 139 and language, 20, 24 and nonhuman, 20, 26, 101, 109, 124 and semiotics, 20
206 Antigone, 128 and character, 12 Aristotle, and emotion, 3 4 and energeia, 14 and human, 138 139 and nonhuman, 169 and prime matter, 28 29, 44 Metaphysics, 36, 137, 170 Auerbach, Erich, 8 Austin, J.L., 25 beauty, 179 183, 187 and ethics, 193 194 and passional suspension, 50, 52 and sensation, 54 as affect, 47, 56 Benjamin, Walter, 72, 77, 89, 195 196 and human, 25 On Language as Such and on the Language of Man, 21 On the Mimetic Faculty, 23 Bergson, Henri and duration, 161, 164 and Faulkner, 141, 144, 146, 151 and Heidegger, 142 145, 152 154 and memory, 149 and past, 150 and possibility, 36, 91, 155 156 and virtual, 148, 150, 160, 172 Creative Evolution, 150, 159 Matter and Memory, 147, 158 bifurcation point, 49 Blanchot, Maurice, 28 and nonhuman, 195 and other, 161 and outside, 33 34 The Space of Literature, 34 Boughton, Joseph Solon Grind, 172 173 Brooks, Peter, 4 5 causality, 2, 86 and quasi-causality, 92 93, 97, 101, 108 109 Index character, 1 3, 6 19, 76, 79 and event, 100 101, 194 and interiority, 8 15 and narrative, 77 78 and novel, 19, 23 24 and potentiality, 15 and singularity, 31 in Invisible Man, 59 60, 64 in Tess of the D Urbervilles, 122, 124 125 in The House of Mirth, 45 47, 51 community, 71, 162, 178, 180, 182, 186, 188 in Blanchot, 161 162 in McCarthy, 94 102 complex, 36, 66, 181 Dasein, 17, 26, 142 143, 148, 153, 156, 161 163 death, 28, 33 34, 118, 168, 173, 182 and ethics, 160 166 and nonhuman, 34 and possibility, 142 in Heidegger, 141 147, 151 158 in McCarthy, 75, 130 133 Deleuze, Gilles A Thousand Plateaus, 121, 130 Bergsonism, 148 150, 153, 155, 160, 167, 172 Cinema 1: The Movement Image, 158 Difference and Repetition, 91, 169, 172, 175, 183 Foucault, 29 Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, 43 The Logic of Sense, 26 27, 31, 60, 85, 87 89, 92, 97, 113, 193 What is Philosophy, 18, 24, 41, 45 Derrida, Jacques, 22, 24 25 desire in language, 4 5 difference/differential relationships, 24, 36, 43, 61, 71, 92, 109 111, 125, 149 150, 153, 166 167, 172, 174 178, 183 184, 197 Dillard, Annie, 16
divergence, 78, 92, 149, 167, 172, 176 duration, 141, 145 148, 152, 158 166 Ellison, Ralph, Invisible Man, 59 73 emotion, 1 6, 15, 42 43, 47, 57, 59 and affect, 26 in Invisible Man, 62 71 ethics, 47, 49, 57, 72, 114, 143, 183, 185, 193 event, 26 29 and community, 98 101 and diagram, 30 and future/past, 87 88, 110 and homelessness, 95 96 and human/nonhuman, 61, 89, 95, 97, 99, 100 101, 106, 108 110, 114, 194, 196 in McCarthy, 75 115, 194 and language, 38 and problematic, 60, 87 88 and pure effect, 85, 88, 91 and sense, 85 88 and sibling incest, 91 92, 95 and singularity, 31 32, 39, 87, 89, 91, 110 and virtual, 36, 56, 90, 92, 97, 101, 103, 110 experience, 6, 8 15, 76 and event, 28 29, 44 Faulkner, William, 38, 118, 140 Absalom, Absalom!, 137 168 force, 17, 22, 24 30, 32, 34 39, 43 45, 66 67, 72, 100, 125, 127, 135, 138, 168, 172, 196, 199 Forster, E.M., 2, 7 Foucault, Michel, 30, 33, 97 Freud, Sigmund, 4, 16, 17, 195 and affect, 65 66 Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming, 7 The Uncanny, 197 future, 37, 86 87, 96 and creativity, 151, 159 and Dasein, 147, 153 Index 207 and event, 88, 92 and other, 146 and past, 100 101, 109 110, 141, 147, 150, 152, 156 and possibility, 142 indeterminate, 161 open, 165, 190 Gardner, John, 2 3, 14 God and humanism, 17, 21 as demon, 38 death of, 2 in McCarthy, 112 114 in Spinoza, 43, 66, 189 Grey, Zane Riders of the Purple Sage, 177 182 Guattari, Felix, 20, 75, 121, 124, 127, 130 Hardy, Thomas, 102, 130 Tess of the D Urbervilles, 117 126 Hawthorne, Nathaniel House of the Seven Gables, 169 174 Heidegger, Martin and Bergson, 152 155 and death, 143 145, 147, 153 154, 156 158, 161 163, 166 and language, 22 and moods, 43 and possibility, 141 142 Being and Time, 43, 142, 153 154, 156 Dasein, 17, 26, 142, 162 163 The Concept of Time, 142, 156 history, 38, 146 147, 150, 168 and affect, 65, 71 and event, 73, 115 and singularity, 88, 89 and time, 140, 165 in Invisible Man, 61 64, 67 68, 70 73 homelessness, 28, 95 96, 101 Homer, 1 and Achilles, 6, 11 12 human, 1 11, 15 26, 28, 32, 35 39 and affect, 66 67 and Bergson, 146 147
208 human Continued and event, 87, 89 90, 99, 101 and madness, 97 and morality, 125 and narrative, 76 77 and nature, 105 and plane of consistency, 56 and potential, 137 141, 170 and temporality, 157 158, 165 and Tess of the D Urbervilles, 102 and The House of Mirth, 42 and values, 77 78, 138 139 and virtual fictions, 103 as problem, 87 as trap, 138 individuality, 8 11, 15, 17, 30 32, 34, 67, 71, 121, 123, 147, 159, 165 and ideology, 65 inwardness, 6 11, 46 James, Henry, 11, 13 Kundera, Milan, 11 12 Lacan, Jacques, 4, 5, 17 18, 131 Language and affect, 24 25, 42 and difference, 175 and event, 27 and force, 22, 38, 198 and Heidegger, 22 and human, 16 18, 25, 30 and literature, 1, 5, 9, 16, 18 19, 23, 30, 32 33, 37 38, 127, 199 and nonhuman, 20 21, 31 and revelation, 21 and sense, 86 and signification, 20 21, 77 and virtual, 172 Levinas, Emmanuel, 33 34 and Bergson, 161 and human, 35, 195 Totality and Infinity, 34 Levy, Pierre, 36, 160 Index Lukacs, George, 14, and potential, 15, 37 Lyotard, J.F., and inhuman, 138 meaning, 3, 11, 20, 30, 77, 109, 163, 189, 196 and human, 3, 16 17, 76 77, 91 and narrative, 15 16 McCarthy, Cormac Blood Meridian, 118 121, 126 135 Child of God, 96 101 Cities of the Plain, 143, 186 187, 189 Outer Dark, 79 82, 85, 92 96 Suttree, 84 The Crossing, 83 84, 110 115, 170, 183 190 The Orchard Keeper, 78 79, 101 109 mapping, 47, 49, 183 185, 190 mass and class, 68, 71 morality, 95, in Hardy, 117 118 in McCarthy, 121 123, 127, 129, 134 135 and ontology, 183, 185, 188 mythology, 97, 109 narrative, 5, 6, 8, 12, 15 16, 49, 77 85, 90, 101 106, 109 110, 182 183, 188 191 nonhuman and event, 101, 103, 108, 109 and language, 20 23, 38 and relationship to human, 23 28, 66 67, 105 106, 109 110, 115, 119, 121, 125, 138 139, 158, 172, 193 199 novel and human, 1 19, 23 26, 35 38 ontology, 20, 123, 126, 135, 142 144, 147, 154, 155, 157, 160 162, 179, 190 191 and narrative, 183 184 outside, 21, 29 35, 38, 83, 158, 161
paradox, 27, 80, 85, 88 89, 104, 151, 181, 189, 193, 194, 196 passional regime, 123 passional suspension, 50 52 personal, 11 12, 23, 35, 42, 45 48, 53, 56, 59 60, 62, 64 68, 71, 113, 121, 123, 138 139, 159, 196 and impersonal, 28, 31 32, 38, 61, 72, 87, 124, 134 plane of consistency/plane of composition, 45, 56 58, 122, 130, 133, 135 plot, 2 3, 5 potentiality and actuality, 91, 134, 171, 174 and affect, 26 and character, 14 15 and event, 35, 97 and genre, 177 and Hawthorne, 174 and human, 23, 67, 89, 103, 137 138, 140 and narrative, 84, 102 103, 109 110 and retrospective projection, 91 and virtuality, 52, 101, 147, 169 170, 175, 178 in Agamben, 15 in Aristotle, 36, 137 140, 170 171 in Heidegger, 142, 156 in Lukacs, 14 15, 37 in Tess of the D Urbervilles, 102 problematic, 59 60, 62, 64, 71, 88, 179, 186, 188, 191 and virtual, 36 37, 170, 176 177, 180 183, 190 race, 61 62, 73 and history, 63 65, 67, 70 72 and personal, 64 resemblance and actuality, 48 and potentiality, 36, 171, 190 Saussure, Ferdinand, 175 semiotics, 20 22, 38 Index 209 Shaviro, Steven and Heidegger, 154 and Blood Meridian, 118, 121, 122 123, 127, 129 130, 133 134 sibling incest, 91 92 singularity and event, 31, 87 89, 101, 196 and example, 176 and human, 32, 103, 106 and individual, 30 31 and morality, 121, 125, 127, 135 and nonhuman, 41, 92, 119, 195 and personal, 31, 61 and problem, 194 and Spinoza, 66 and virtual, 103, 177 178 in The House of Mirth, 42, 56 Spinoza, Baruch, 4, 25, 47, 189 and affect, 43 44, 65 66 Ethics, 4, 43, 65 theology, 2, 23, 111 time, 37, 49, 51, 52, 56, 76 77, 87, 90, 100 101, 115, 140 147, 151 153, 157 159, 164 167, 171, 194, 197, 199 and Heidegger, 43, 154, 156 and virtual, 140, 149, 168 unconscious, 5, 7, 30, 32, 66, 86, 91, 97 virtuality and actualization, 55, 92, 97, 100, 109, 149, 151, 167, 172, 190 and affect, 50 52, 54 and beauty, 47 and bifurcation point, 49 and differentiation, 109, 152, 167 168, 174 176 and event, 91, 95, 100, 101, 103, 110 and human, 35, 106, 172 and potential, 35 38, 52, 84, 137, 140, 147, 154, 171, 174, 178
210 virtuality Continued and problem, 92, 160, 175, 177, 179 and singular, 175, 177 and transformation, 38, 57, 169, 170, 183 in Bergson, 145 148, 151, 158 Index Watt, Ian, 6, 8 10 western genre, 176 179, 183, 186 Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth 41 58 Zizek, Slavoj, 131, 133