A Rhetoric of Silence and Other Selected Writings

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Introduction	p. 1
The silence intended: some exclusions necessary for its definition	p. 3
Rhetoric: state of the art	p. 14
Praise of reading	p. 19
Silence and its double: a history of literature or a history of reading?	p. 27
Lector e-lector	p. 40
Problems of "repeated discourse"	p. 59
The (di)vision of man and the crisis of coherence	p. 81
Familiarity and strangeness: repetition-fragmentation. The narrative of Felisberto Hernandez	p. 96
The era of the reader	p. 109
Critical avidity	p. 111
"Le style c'est, au moins, deux hommes"	p. 115
Every reader reads	p. 119
A read reader	p. 122
The rights of the reader	p. 133
Solidity and precariousness of the text	p. 137
Reading and interdiction; between word and word, silence	p. 143
Writing and interdiction	p. 156
The reticence of the text	p. 160
Borges and the invention of the name	p. 171
Finland-bound (on the way to Finland). (Between rhetorical and geometrical figures): The semiotic spectre in La muerte y la brujula	p. 185
The miracle of the roses and Borges' ultrarealism	p. 198
Between two languages: Jules Laforgue, a Uruguayan "figure". Biographical and poetical notes for the study of a rhetorical figure	p. 212
Anaphoric imagination in cinema: an approach to Fellini's Intervista	p. 226
Symbols as pass-words between spaces and species	p. 239
Narration under discussion: a question of angels, men, nouns and pronouns	p. 256
The paradoxes of paradoxes	p. 278
Notes	p. 293
References	p. 309
Subject Index	p. 327
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