Index

Acker, Kathy 60, 70, 141
Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec, The 159
Blood and Guts in High School 157, 158, 161–2
Don Quixote (Acker) 161, 162
Empire of the Senseless 160
Great Expectations (Acker) 159, 160–1
Hannibal Lecter, My Father 157
Aldiss, Brian 165
Allende, Isabel 121
Althusser, Louis 7
Annesley, James 197
‘blank fiction’ 197
‘anti-detective fiction’ see ‘metaphysical’ detective fiction
appropriation 148, 158–60, 161, 166–7
Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin 122
Atwood, Margaret 141–2, 148–56
Alias Grace 149, 153–6
Handmaid's Tale, The 149–53, 156, 160
Robber Bride, The 156
Auster, Paul 27, 37, 179–83
City of Glass 27, 37, 179–83
Ghosts 179
Locked Room, The 179
New York Trilogy, The 179, 182
Bakhtin, Mikhail 90–1, 101, 135
carnival 135
Ballard, J. G. 70, 165, 184, 185–91, 201
Atrocity Exhibition, The 187
Cocaine Nights 190
Concrete Island 190
Crash 187–90
‘Crash, Introduction to’ 186, 187
‘death of affect, the’ 184–5, 190, 197, 201
High-Rise 190
‘inner space’ 165
Millenium People 190
Super-Cannes 190
Barnes, Julian 116–20
Flaubert's Parrot 116–20
Barth, John 15, 35, 36, 38, 50–1, 58, 60, 73–4, 76–9, 81–2, 133, 173, 187
‘Autobiography’ 79
‘Frame-Tale’ 77
Giles Goat-Boy 35, 76
Letters 73
‘Life-Story’ 78–9
‘Literature of Exhaustion, The’ 15, 50–1, 173
‘Lost in the Funhouse’ (story) 77–8, 81–2
Lost in the Funhouse (collection) 76–9
‘Menelaid’ 77
Sot-Weed Factor, The 36, 73
Barthelme, Donald 73, 76
Snow White 73, 76
Barthes, Roland 20, 27, 28–9, 43–5, 61, 78, 101, 109
‘Death of the Author, The’ 44, 61, 78, 109
‘Discourse of History, The’ 101
‘From Work to Text’ 45
‘Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narratives’ 27, 28–9
Pleasure of the Text, The 44
‘readerly’ text, the 44, 114
S/Z 43–5
‘writerly’ text, the 44–5, 111
Baudrillard, Jean 4–6, 7, 9, 62, 113, 117, 126, 147, 187, 190, 192, 193
‘code, the’ 193
hyperreal 9, 147, 190, 192
simulation 5–6, 193
Bayard, Pierre 28, 48
Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? 28, 48
Beckett, Samuel 18, 29, 37, 52–8
Malone Dies 56–7
Molloy 29, 56, 57
Murphy 37, 54–5
Trilogy, The 29, 56–8
Unnamable, The 57
Watt 54, 55–6
Bell, Daniel 11
Belsey, Catherine 24, 101
Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckmann 8
Bethke, Bruce 165
Bildungsroman, the 161
Blanchot, Maurice 78, 181
‘writing, the demand of’ 182
Borges, Jorge Luis 39, 48, 58–65, 78, 81, 95, 118, 160, 171, 172, 173–5
‘Death and the Compass’ 173–5, 182
‘Garden of Forking Paths, The’ 48, 63–5, 81, 84–5, 89, 95, 171, 173
see also ‘forking paths principle, the’
‘Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth’ 173
‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’ 59–61, 160
‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ 61–3, 118
Bould, Mark 167
Bradbury, Malcolm 29, 39, 71
‘brat pack, the’ 197
Brautigan, Richard 36, 76
Trout Fishing in America 36, 76
bricolage 166–7
see also appropriation
British historiographic metafiction 105–6
Brooks, Peter 27
Browning, Robert 202
‘Porphyria's Lover’ 202
Burroughs, William S. 60, 65–71, 78, 80, 115, 133, 158–60, 188
‘Astronaut's Return’ 66–8
‘cut-up’ technique, the 66, 68–9, 70–1, 78, 80, 115, 133, 159
Exterminator! 66, 68
‘fold-in’ technique, the
see under ‘cut-up’ technique
Naked Lunch, The 65, 115
Nova Express 69
Third Mind, The 68–9
Butler, Judith 146
Carter, Angela 12, 141–8, 149, 156
Bloody Chamber, The 143
Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, The 143–5
‘Notes From the Front Line’ 142
Passion of New Eve, The 12, 146–8, 156
Castillo, Debra A. 95
Cervantes, Miguel de 38, 77, 158
Don Quixote 38
Christie, Agatha 28
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 28
Cohen, Stanley and Laurie Taylor 8–9
Escape Attempts 8–9
conjecture 47–9, 95, 131, 178
Conrad, Joseph 19
Cooper, Dennis 197
Coover, Robert 53, 74, 75, 76, 79–82, 104, 110, 133, 145, 171
‘Babysitter, The’ 81, 110, 145
‘Door, The’ 79
‘Elevator, The’ 81
‘Gingerbread House, The’ 79
‘Magic Poker, The’ 79–81, 110, 171
Origin of the Brunists, The 76
Pricksongs and Descants 76, 79–82
Public Burning, The 75, 104
‘Quenby and Ola, Swede and Carl’ 81–2
‘Seven Exemplary Fictions’ 74, 77
Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop 76
Coupland, Douglas 197
cultural memory 124, 126, 127–8
Cundy, Catherine 126
cybernetics 166
cyberpunk 165
cyberspace 166, 168–9, 170–1
cyborg 166, 189
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari 47, 82
A Thousand Plateaus 47–8
DeLillo, Don 184, 185, 191–7
Americana 191
End Zone 191
Falling Man 191
Libra 191, 194–7
Ratner's Star 191
White Noise 191–4
Derrida, Jacques 6
detective fiction 26–7, 34, 47, 48, 94, 137, 171–2, 177–8, 183
Dickens, Charles 113, 160, 161, 162
Great Expectations 113, 160, 161, 162
Doctorow, E. L. 10, 103
Ragtime 10
Dostoevsky, Fyodor 202–3
Notes from Underground 202–3
‘double-coding’ 15–16, 31–2, 103–4, 111, 149
Duchamp, Marcel 159
During, Simon 122
Dworkin, Andrea 143
dystopian fiction 149, 150, 168
Eco, Umberto 14–15, 30, 47–8, 52, 54, 55–6, 74, 95, 175–8
Name of the Rose, The 14, 15, 47, 175–8, 182
Reflections on The Name of the Rose 47, 52, 177, 178
Eliot, George 25–6
Eliot, T. S. 116
Ellis, Bret Easton 10, 185, 197–204
American Psycho 10, 198–204
Less Than Zero 198
Rules of Attraction, The 198
Ellison, Ralph 133
Emin, Tracey 162
Enlightenment (thinking) 11, 142, 144, 145, 158, 172, 175
existentialism 52, 107–8
feminism 140–1
fictionality xvii, 75, 96
Fiedler, Leslie 1, 42, 91, 158
Flaubert, Gustave 116, 117–18
Foucault, Michel 6, 155
‘disciplinary regimes’ 155
‘dividing practice, the’ 155
‘forking paths principle, the’ 68, 81, 110
Fowles, John 22, 36, 106–12, 119
Collector, The 107
French Lieutenant's Woman, The 22, 36, 106–12, 119
Magus, The 107, 110
framing 35–6
Freud, Sigmund 34, 71, 131, 132
see also trauma
Gasiorek, Andrzej 23, 187
Gass, William 73, 76
Omensetter's Luck 76
Willie Master's Lonesome Wife 73
Gates Jr, Henry Louis 134, 137–8
Figures of Black 134
‘Generation X’ 197
Genette, Gérard 83, 86–9
paratexts 83, 86, 109, 152
Gibson, William 160, 165, 166, 167–71
Difference Engineer, The 167
Neuromancer 160, 165, 166, 167–71
Godzilla vs. Megalon 158
Goffman, Erving 37
‘frame-breaking’ 37–8
Good Soldier, The (Ford) 131
Gothic 156
Gray, Alasdair 165
Lanark 165
Great Gatsby, The 188
Gysin, Brion 66, 69
Haraway, Donna 166
‘Cyborg Manifesto, The’ 166
Harding, Sandra 140
Hawkes, John 76
Second Skin, The 76
Hawkins, Susan E. 157
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 156
Scarlet Letter, The 156, 157, 158
Heller, Joseph 83, 86
Catch-22 84–5, 86
heteroglossia 90
historical novel, the 100
hooks, bell 138
Howells, Coral Ann 153
Hrushovski, Benjamin 25
Hutcheon, Linda xiv, 10, 15–16, 31–2, 58, 99, 100, 103–4, 111, 112, 122, 149, 156
historiographic metafiction 10, 58, 99, 102, 103–5, 106, 111, 117, 123, 124, 125, 127, 149, 195
Narcissistic Narrative 103
Huyssen, Andreas 140
‘Mapping the Postmodern’ 140
Ingarden, Roman 25
intertextuality 68, 138, 156, 161
irony 13, 14–15, 32
Jakobson, Roman xvi, 33
‘dominant, the’ xvi, 33
Jameson, Fredric 9–11, 102–3, 104, 113, 156, 160, 187, 196
‘Periodizing the Sixties’ 104
Political Unconscious, The 102–3
Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism 10, 185
Janowitz, Tama 197
Jencks, Charles 15, 31
Johnson, B. S. 22, 41, 53, 69, 70, 187
‘A Few Selected Sentences’ 41
Albert Angelo 22
Aren't You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? 22
Unfortunates, The 70
Joyce, James 12, 19, 20, 29, 71, 86, 89–90, 96–7, 142
Finnegan's Wake 29–30, 90
Ulysses 12, 96–7, 98
Kafka, Franz 20, 58
Kelman, James 18
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, assassination of 17, 194–6
King, Noel 184
‘ficto-criticism’ 184
Kingston, Maxine Hong 123
Woman Warrior, The 123
Kosinski, Jerzy 76
Painted Bird, The 76
Lacan, Jacques 7–8
symbolic order 7–8
‘late capitalism’ 3, 10
Lee, Alison 100, 106, 114
Lentricchia, Frank 194, 196
Levine, Sherrie 60, 159
Lodge, David 106
Lovibond, Sabina 140
Luckhurst, Roger 187
Lukács, Georg 100
Lyotard, Jean-François 3, 11–13, 19, 96, 127, 142, 145, 185, 200
metanarrative 11, 96, 124, 127, 142, 143, 145
The Postmodern Condition 11–12, 127
MacCabe, Colin 24, 101
McCaffrey, Larry 3–4, 17, 158
McCarthy, Mary 84–5, 86, 89–98
‘A Bolt from the Blue’ 84–5, 86
McEwan, Ian 18, 152
Enduring Love 152
McHale, Brian xvi, 6, 25, 26, 33–5, 46, 51–2, 62, 64, 82, 86, 100, 145, 160, 164–5, 167, 168, 171
‘dominant, epistemological’ 33, 173
‘dominant, ontological’ 33, 51–2, 145, 164
‘microworlds’ 167, 171
McInerney, Jay 197
Mandel, Ernst 3
Marquez, Gabriel Garciá 121
Matus, Jill 131
Mauss, Marcel 4–5
The Gift 4–5
Merivale, Patricia and Susan Sweeney 172
Detecting Texts 172
metafiction 16, 35–9, 61, 73–4, 95, 99, 133, 142, 153, 179–80, 185, 191, 204
‘metaphysical’ detective fiction 137, 172, 178–9, 183
mimesis 25, 51–2
modernism 2, 9, 18–19, 20, 23, 29–30, 123, 188, 203
modernity 2, 11, 172
Moorcock, Michael 165
Morris, Meaghan 140–1
Morrison, Toni 124, 127–33, 141
Beloved 124, 127–33
‘multiverse, the’ 64, 171
Munch, Edvard 9
The Scream 9
Murdoch, Iris 152
Black Prince, The 152
myth (and postmodernism) 148
Nabokov, Vladimir 49, 82–6, 118, 145
Ada 82
Lolita 82
Look at the Harlequins 82
Pale Fire 49, 82–6, 145, 152
Nealon, Jeffrey 181
Nicholls, Peter 131
Nietzsche, Friedrich 36
nouveau roman (French ‘new novel’) 19–21, 23
O’Donnell, Patrick 94
Onega, Susan 105, 106
Owens, Craig 140
‘The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism’ 140
Palliser, Charles 108
Quincunx, The 108
‘paranoid reading’ 46–7, 63, 96, 97, 116, 172
pastiche 10, 60–1, 160
Pitchford, Nicola 163
plagiarism 159–60
see also appropriation
Poe, Edgar Allan 172
‘Murders in the Rue Morgue, The’ 173
Portoghesi, Paolo 31
postcolonialism 121
and postmodernism 121–3, 124, 134
postmodern detective fiction see ‘metaphysical’ detective fiction
postmodernity 2, 11, 12
poststructuralism 6
Pound, Ezra 18
Proust, Marcel 20
‘punk’ 157–8, 166, 170
Pynchon, Thomas 12, 82, 86, 89–98, 171
Crying of Lot 49, The 93–5, 171
Gravity's Rainbow 12, 90, 92, 96–7, 148
V. 92–3, 97–8
Vineland 91, 92
realism 18, 23, 24, 72, 149, 171
Reed, Ishmael 122, 124, 133–9
Mumbo Jumbo 122, 124, 133–9
Reeve, N. H. 195
relativism 200
‘rememory’ 132–3
rhizomatic narrative 47–8, 82, 86, 89–90, 97, 98, 111, 115, 131, 178
Ricoeur, Paul 46
Robbe-Grillet, Alain 20–1, 23, 60
For a New Novel 20
‘From Realism to Reality’ 21
‘Time and Description in the Novel’ 20–1
Voyeur, The 21
romance, the 164, 169–70, 171
Romanticism 161
Rosemont, Franklin 136
Roth, Philip 74
Rothko, Mark 41, 53
Rucker, Rudy 166
Rushdie, Salman 122, 124–7
Midnight's Children 122, 124–7
Sage, Lorna 143
Sarraute, Nathalie 20, 21, 23
‘The Age of Suspicion’ 16, 20
Saussure, Ferdinand de 6–7
Scholes, Robert 43, 100
Fabulation and Metafiction 100
science fiction 34, 64, 66, 71, 149, 168
and postmodernism 164–5
self-reference see metafiction
self-reflexivity see metafiction
Seltzer, Mark 188–9, 200
‘wound culture’ 188–9
Showalter, Elaine 193
Siegel, Mark 46
Simpsons, The 1, 13–14, 92
slave narratives 129
Sloterdijk, Peter 13
Smith, Zak 90
‘social construction of reality, the’ 8
Sontag, Susan 1, 20, 40–3, 53, 178, 187
‘Against Interpretation’ 40, 41, 42–3
‘One Culture and the New Sensibility’ 40–1
Sorrentino, Gilbert 26
Mulligan Stew 26
Spanos, William 178–9
‘The Detective and the Boundary’ 178–9
Spark, Muriel 37
Comforters, The 37
Sterne, Laurence 38
Tristram Shandy, The Life and Opinions of 38
‘stream of consciousness’ 19
structuralism 6–7, 103
subjectivity 7, 118
surrealism 69, 165
Swift, Graham 112–16, 123, 124
Waterland 112–16, 117, 123, 124, 148
Swope, Richard 137
Thomas, D. M. 39, 60, 112, 159
White Hotel, The 39, 112
Todorov, Tzvetan 181
‘Typology of Detective Fiction, The’ 181
trauma 131–2
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe) 130, 135
Veyne, Paul 103
Vonnegut, Kurt 82, 86, 104
Slaughterhouse-Five 83, 86–9, 104
Waugh, Patricia xvii, 16, 35, 36, 38, 57, 73, 142, 163
Metafiction 16, 20
Weisenburger, Steven 90–1
Wells, H. G. 142
White, Hayden 101, 102, 103
Wiener, Norbert 166
Winterson, Jeanette 18
Woolf, Virginia 19
ya Salaam, Kalamu 136
Zimmerman, Bonnie 141
Žižek, Slavoj 8