附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-177) and index.
Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Fiction and Interpretation, a Dialogue; One: Nabokov's Watermark: Writing the Self in Pale Fire; Two: Self-Alignment: John Hawkes' Travesty; Three: Self, Narrative, History: The System of John Barth's 'Letter'; Four: "A Book of Traces": Gravity's Rainbow; Five: The World Dactylic: Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood; Six: The Wor(l)d Made Elesh: Stanley Elkin's The Franchiser; Seven: Entanglement: The Reader in Contemporary Fiction; Notes; Index.
