Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction: Forms of Narrative Continuation 1
5. Continuation and the Novel: Open Context and the Problem of Closure 15
6. Clotels: Bad Beginnings, Instructive Continuations 31
7. “He Keeps Happening”: Character and Situation in W. D. Howells’s A Modern Instance 61
8. Serial Singularity: Reading for the Project Form in the Business Romance 83
9. Genre-Bending Literary Fiction and the Pleasure of Immersion in Fictional Worlds 113
10. The Eternal Draft: Authorial Revision and Philip Roth’s Construction of the Oeuvre 141
11. Nicole Krauss’s To Be a Man: Implications of Continuity in the Jewish American Short Story Collection 165
12. Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: Novels, Middles, and Serialization in an Electronic Age 197
13. Of Masks and Men: Percival Everett’s James 221
14. Eclogue: The End of History in Verse (Continued) 247
15. Shakespeare, Ibsen, and the Staged Future of Robots 267
16. The Remake as Fetish Art: On Gus Van Sant’s Psycho and Other Psychos 293