Pt. 1. What Is It? The Question of Postmodernism -- Pt. 2. Poetry and Fiction. Blank (Verse) Generation. Our Poetic Grandparents. Interrupted Visions. Mark Strand's Dark Land. Who Killed Edwin Drood? The Ern Malley Poetry Hoax. Cynthia Ozick's Messiah. Philip Roth's Double -- Pt. 3. Lives and Letters. Janet Malcolm and the Problem of Biography. Over Their Dead Bodies. Literal Lives. Philip Larkin's Letters. Frank O'Hara's Life. Old Man Rivers. James Merrill: Another Life. An Unsentimental Education. The Case of Michel Foucault -- Pt. 4. Criticism and Controversy. Deconstruction after the Fall. Derridadaism. From Disclosure to Closure. The Heidegger Affair. Gettysburg, Deconstructed. Notes on Political Correctness
