附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index.
1. The science of mind, consciousness, and literary studies -- 2. Models of the self -- 3. Deconstruction, Indian literary theory, and consciousness -- 4. Intersubjective phenomenology and performance -- 5. Postmodernism and the drama of consciousness -- 6. Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: shell shock or hysteria -- 7. DeLillo's white noise: the aesthetics of cyberspace -- 8. Ethics: free will, and consciousness: reading Philip K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem.