Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. I. General Problems
5. Introductory Remarks 3
6. Pluralism in Postmodern Perspective 17
7. Teleology in Postmodern Fiction 41
8. Allegory, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism 59
9. Postmodern Italy 79
10. II. Analytical Criticism
11. New Nouns for Old 95
12. Samuel Beckett and the Postmodernism Controversy 109
13. The Intrusive Author in Bristish Postmodernist Fiction 123
14. Postmodern Characterization and the Intrusion of Language 139
15. Popular Genre Conventions in Postmodern Fiction 161
16. Reading One/Self 175
17. Michel Leiris’ Autobiography La Règle du jeu and Postmodernism 199
18. Narrative Discourse in Postmodernist Texts 215
19. Concluding Observations 233
20. Notes on the Contributors 243
21. References 247
22. Index 263