附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215) and index.
Imitation's limitations; or, Why writers write about writers writing -- Repertoire of reflexivity -- Self-conscious tradition -- Getting back at james Joyce -- Nabokov's imitations of mortality -- Plagiarizing The Recognitions -- Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The real workd inside Gravity's Rainbow -- Trestle of letters -- Criticism of self-consciousness -- Relexive commentary in the form of a conclusion.
摘要:Studies of Joyce, Nabokov, Gaddis, Pynchon and Barth.