Kristeva's Fiction -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Kristeva's Turn to Fiction -- Kristeva's Novels -- The Book Reviews -- The Academic Critics -- "Yes, but is Kristeva any good as a novelist?" -- Our Collection -- Notes -- Part I -- Chapter 1: Whodunit? Reading Kristeva with the Help of Detective Fiction -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Revolution Has Italian Roots: Kristeva's Fiction and Theory -- Chapter 3: Not a Country for Old Men: Scapegoats and Sacrifice in Santa Varvara -- Wolves, Scapegoats, and Mimetic Theory -- The Very Picture of a Wolf -- Men of Sorrow -- The Alchemy of the Word -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Sebastian's Skull: Establishing the "Society of the Icon" -- Notes -- Chapter 5: From the Agency of the Letter to the Agency of the Icon: Femininity and Bulgaria in Julia Kristeva's Murder in Byzantium -- The Law of Genre on Trial -- Another Beginning: Femininity, Eastern Europe, Byzantium -- Notes -- Part II -- Chapter 6: Noir Analysis: How Kristeva's Detective Novels Renew Psychoanalysis -- Orpheus Descendant and Triumphant -- Kristeva's Lay Analysis -- A Negative Aesthetics -- Negative Sublimation -- Beyond Freudian Sublimation -- A Negative Diagnosis -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Fiction, Analysis, Possession, and Violence in Kristeva's Mirror of Writing -- Introduction -- Fiction -- The Paranoid Critical Method-or: Fiction as Delirium -- Fiction and Interpretation -- Kristeva's Fiction -- Analysis -- Analysis and Detective Fiction -- Violence -- Finitude/Murder -- The Dead Father -- Without Catharsis . . . Writing as Death -- Writing, Affect, Possession -- 1. Writing and Affect -- 2. Possession -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Byzantium, or Fiction as Inverted Theory -- Trajectories of the Unsaid: From the Dome of Being to Crime Fiction -- B&B -- The Wink of the Real: Anna Comnena and Vera M. -- Notes.

Chapter 9: The Vital Legacy of the Novel and Julia Kristeva's Fictional Revolt -- The Polylogue and the Innovator as "an anamnestic child"2 -- Forgetting and the Writing of the Woman-Stranger -- A Vital Theory for the Novel: The Circle of Cor(ps)respondence and the Diagonal -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.