Pt. I. Grasshopper Antics: The Playhouse of Language. Ch. 1. Foreplay. Ch. 2. Play: The Reader as Trickster. Ch. 3. Reader Response: The Reader as Chameleon. Ch. 4. Deconstruction: The Reader as Scheherazade -- Pt. II. Duplicity as Virtue: Playful Texts and Textualised Players. Ch. 1. The Play in Postmodernism. Ch. 2. Narcissus at the Edge: The Endlessly Diddling Play of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Ch. 3. Letters to Literature: The Epistolary Artfulness of John Barth's LETTERS. Ch. 4. Strategies of Influence: Intertextual Infiltration in Robert Kroetsch's What the Crow Said. Ch. 5. Revisioning the Carnivalesque: The Cultural Combinations of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. Ch. 6. Deceptive Constructions: The Art of Building in Peter Carey's Illywhacker
Notes
Bibliography: p277-300. - Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-300) and index