1. Meditations on a lost nomenclature -- 2. The second Revolution -- 3. Exploiting the dead issue -- 4. The threnody of solipsism -- 5. The sublation of the avant-garde -- 6. Speculations in lieu of a transition -- 7. Opacity as reality -- 8. To drain a lake -- 9. Rouse the stupid and damp the pert -- 10. The indeterminist fallacy -- 11. The anxiety of non-influence -- 12. In the wake of the wake -- 13. The end game strategy -- 14. Neo-conservatism and the unrevolutionization of literature -- 15. Formalist bedrock and the footbridge of Realism -- 16. Writing without genre -- 17. The novelist as poet/critic -- 18. The critic as artist -- 19. The poet as person -- 20. Banal antagonists : from campus to television -- 21. Of the future [sic] -- 22. Fiction as forgetting -- 23. The use and abuse of death -- 24. The permanent crisis unsprung
Analysis
American fiction History and criticism 20th century
Postmodernism (Literature) United States
Notes
"An earlier version of this text appeared in Salmagundi, vol. 63-64, 1984"--T.p. verso
