Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. Fiction’s Present 11
7. Innovative Fiction and the Poetics of Power 17
8. To Have Done with Postmodernism 29
9. Fiction’s Present without Basis 47
10. Convinced by Fiction, Convinced by History 67
11. American World-Fiction in the Longue Durée 73
12. Post-postmodern Discontent 101
13. Toward the Edge of the Hermetic 119
14. The Self-Deceiving Muse 127
15. Notes on Fiction and Philosophy 147
16. James, Cather, Vollmann, and the Distinction of Historical Fiction 159
17. Fourteen Notes Toward the Musicality of Creative Disjunction, or Fiction by Collage 185
18. Mount Rushmore 191
19. Recognition as a Depleted Source in Lynne Tillman’s Motion Sickness 195
20. A Modality 209
21. Critifictional Reflections on the Pathetic Condition of the Novel in Our Time 213
22. Henry Miller to Henry James 231
23. In Their Own Words 235
24. World Book 251
25. Afterword 255
26. About the Contributors 265
27. Index 269