Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Leaping: Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling 11
6. Part One. Knowing: "Sapere Aude!" — The West Dares to Know
7. 2. Genealogy of Realism: An Enlightenment Narrative in Five Stages 23
8. 3. Anatomy of Realism: Coming to Know, from Defoe to Dostoevsky 49
9. Part Two. Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction
10. 4. Plotting Modernism: Freud 79
11. 5. Uncanny Space: Flaubert to Beckett 95
12. 6. Unbound Time: Proust, Kafka, Faulkner 121
13. 7. Subject and/as Other: Kafka, Proust, Faulkner 163
14. Part Three. Beyond Knowing: Postmodern and Postcolonial Flight m Gravity
15. 8. Adventures in Hyperspace 197
16. 9. Urban Nightmare and City Dreams: Rilke and Calvino 206
17. 10. Passage and Passing: Forster and Rushdie 217
18. 11. Arrest and Release: Faulkner, Garcia Marquez, Morrison 231
19. Conclusion 252
20. Notes 261
21. Index 303