Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the 2013 Reissue of Narcissistic Narrative ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Modes and Forms of Narrative Narcissism: Introduction of a Typology 17
7. Process and Product: The Implications of Metafiction for the Theory of the Novel as a Mimetic Genre 36
8. Thematizing Narrative Artifice: Parody, Allegory, and the Mise En Abyme 48
9. Freedom Through Artifice: The French Lieutenant’s Woman 57
10. Actualizing Narrative Structures: Detective Plot, Fantasy, Games, and the Erotic 71
11. The Language of Fiction: Creating the Heterocosm of Fictive Referents 87
12. The Theme of Linguistic Identity: La Macchina Mondiale 104
13. Generative Word Play: The Outer Limits of the Novel Genre 118
14. Composite Identity: The Reader, the Writer, the Critic 138
15. Conclusion and Speculations 153
16. Index of Subjects and Names 163