Fiction's Present: Situating Cintemporary Narrative Innovation

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Summary

Fiction writers and critics engage the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: 12 Theses on Fiction's Present	p. 1
Fiction's Present: Brief Notes	p. 11
Innovative Fiction and the Poetics of Power: Gertrude Stein and Christine Brooke-Rose "Do" Language	p. 17
To Have Done with Postmodernism: A Plea (or Provocation) for Globalization Studies	p. 29
Fiction's Present without Basis	p. 47
Convinced by Fiction, Convinced by History: Three Novels	p. 67
American World-Fiction in the Longue Duree	p. 73
Post-postmodern Discontent: Contemporary Fiction and the Social World	p. 101
Toward the Edge of the Hermetic: Notes on Raising Fiction from the Dead	p. 119
The Self-Deceiving Muse: Fiction and the Rationalistic Dictates of the Present	p. 127
Notes on Fiction and Philosophy	p. 147
James, Cather, Vollmann, and the Distinction of Historical Fiction	p. 159
Fourteen Notes toward the Musicality of Creative Disjunction, or Fiction by Collage	p. 185
Mount Rushmore: Four Brief Essays on Fictions	p. 191
Recognition as a Depleted Source in Lynne Tillman's Motion Sickness	p. 195
A Modality	p. 209
Critifictional Reflections on the Pathetic Condition of the Novel in Our Time	p. 213
Henry Miller to Henry James	p. 231
In Their Own Words: The Collective Presents Itself	p. 235
World Book	p. 251
Afterword: Two Presents	p. 255
About the Contributors	p. 265
Index	p. 269
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