Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface and Acknowledgments IX
4. I. Imitation's Limitations; or, Why Writers Write About Writers Writing 1
5. II. The Repertoire of Reflexivity 19
6. III. The Self-Conscious Tradition 32
7. IV. Getting Back at James Joyce 48
8. V. Nabokov's Imitations of Mortality 73
9. VI. Plagiarizing The Recognitions 114
10. VII. Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The Real World Inside Gravity's Rainbow 141
11. VIII. A Trestle of LETTERS 157
12. IX. The Criticism of Self-Consciousness 168
13. X. Reflexive Commentary in the Form of a Conclusion 183
14. Bibliography 195
15. Index 217