The Unruly Text and the Rule of Literature

Arnold Weinstein advances the notion that all texts, like all bodies, are unruly, if the reader is expert enough to recognize the organic chaos. Presenting three works that explicitly deal with sick bodies---selections from Winesburg, Ohio, "The Country Doctor," and Mood Indigo---Weinstein methodically unearths elements of plot and form that undermine a superficial order, thereby revealing great chasms in the chain of signification of the works.