Powerless Fictions?: Ethics, Cultural Critique, and American Fiction in the Age of Postmodernism: Postmodern Studies, cartea 17

Ricardo Miguel ALFONSO: Introduction: Ethics and Contemporary Fiction. Judith CHAMBERS: Parabolas and Parables: The Radical Ethics of Pynchon's V. and Gravity's Rainbow. Gregory COMNES: The Law of the Excluded Muddle: The Ethics of Indeterminacy in A Frolic of His Own. Richard ELDRIDGE and Paul COHEN: Art and the Transfiguration of Social Life: Gaddis on Art and Society. Frederick M. HOLMES: The Death of the Author as Cultural Critique in London Fields. Jerome KLINKOWITZ: Fictive Empowerment through Cultural Criticism in the Works of Walter Abish, Raymond Federmans, and Michael Stephens. Robert A. MORACE: The Facts in Black and White: Cheever's Falconer and Wideman's Philadelphia Fire. Bill MULLEN: No There There: Cultural Criticism as Lost Object in Don DeLillo's Players and Running Dog. Daniel T. O'HARA: Becoming Other: The Conscience of the Reader in Late James. Jerry A. VARSAVA: Totality Lost; Or, Fredric Jameson and the Social Site of American Postmodern Fiction. Joseph J. WALDMEIR: Rabbit's Four-Stage Quest to Learn the Way and Figure Out the Destination — Then Get There.