[Pt. 1.] Aspects of the modern. The concept of the avant-garde ; The obsessive object ; Rousseau and the concept of nature ; In and out : ruminations on fashion ; Gide and sexual liberation ; The solar revolution ; Surrealism and super-realism -- [pt. 2.] Theatre and cinema. Saint Artaud ; The play as fable ; A pad in Paddington ; Bald remarks on Hair ; Plays or psycho-dramas? ; God's bodikins! ; Rites at the round house ; The outsider rides again ; Flesh in the afternoon ; Flashing the old job ; All flesh is trash ; A French no-play ; Centre 69? ; Modalities of sex ; The light and the dark -- [pt. 3.] Literature. King phallus ; Sartre versus Flaubert ; Céline's paranoid poetics ; O'Brien's sexy cross ; O is for orifice ; Myth of the butch bitch ; Omelette à la Ponge ; Genet's black chivalry ; Nathalie Sarraute ; Robbe-Grillet and the Ludic novel
