附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Strange displacements of the ordinary] The excluded middle -- The midfictional world : Elkin, Apple, and Barthelme -- [Acts of definition] In defense of phenomenology, or who is Thomas Berger? -- The uneasiness of being -- [Ways and means] An intolerable double vision : Thomas Pynchon and the phenomenology of middles -- Shooting for smallness : realism and midfiction -- Dayanu : Max Apple and the ethics of sufficiency -- [On knowing (and not-knowing) the world] Barthelme his garden -- Grace Paley's world-inventing words.
