“Only a Book”: Reading the Footnotes in House of Leaves

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword from the Editors v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Special Focus: Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes. Reflections on the Margins of the Literary Text
5. Introduction: Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes. Reflections on the Margins of the Literary Text 3
6. I. Undermining Authority, Power, and Dominance
7. Poe, Annotation, and the Other 21
8. Headnotes and Endnotes in the African American Sonnet 37
9. Páginas en blanco, Footnotes, and the Authority of the Archive in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 57
10. II. Diluting Mainstream Constraints
11. Too Much Fun – Endnotes in Infinite Jest 75
12. Paratextualized Forms of Fictional Self-Narration: Footnotes, Headnotes and Endnotes in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad 101
13. “Only a Book”: Reading the Footnotes in House of Leaves 121
14. III. Creating Another Voice for the Self
15. The Novel as Note: Pale Fire and its Aftermath 139
16. Headnotes, Footnotes, Subliminal Notes in “Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky” and The Kraus Project 155
17. General Section
18. The Visible Remainder: Curtis White’s Memories of My Father Watching TV 181
19. Classicism, Cultural Mobility, Hybridity, and the Transnational Imagination in the Works of Reginald Shepherd 193
20. List of Contributors 209
21. Index 213