Index
2666 52, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 109, 110, 143, 159
ethical readings of 94
academic readers 14, 15, 20, 41, 133, 150, 165, 181, 182
academic unconscious 46
Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters 132
Acker, Kathy 186
Adorno, Theodor W. 52, 93, 97, 98, 99, 101, 111, 152, 155, 160, 185, 192, 201
Commitment. See Commitment
Dialectic of Enlightenment. See Dialectic of Enlightenment
Jargon of Authenticity, The. See Jargon of Authenticity, The
Negative Dialectics. See Negative Dialectics
Affinity 53, 162, 163, 164, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183
Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre. See Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre
Althusser, Louis 30, 103, 129, 159
Altieri, Charles 28
American Fiction at the Millennium: Neoliberalism and the New 125
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention 153
Amis, Kingsley 18
Lucky Jim. See Lucky Jim
anxiety of academia 16, 46, 50, 204, 208
Anxiety of Influence, The 84
Aristotle 121
Nicomachean Ethics. See Nicomachean Ethics
Arnold, Matthew 115
ARPAnet 195
Art of Excess, The 196
Atrocity Exhibition, The 75, 76, 77
Aubry, Timothy 191
authenticity 62, 63, 66, 84, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127
Baader-Meinhof gang 138
Badiou, Alain 61
Balibar, Etienne 30
Ballard, J.G. 60, 61, 73, 75, 76, 77
Atrocity Exhibition, The. See Atrocity Exhibition, The
Crash. See Crash
Balzac, Honoré de 118
Sarrasine. See Sarrasine
Barthelme, Donald 124
S/Z. See S/Z
Gilles Goat-Boy. See Gilles Goat-Boy
Baudrillard, Jean 77
Bauer, Heike 82
Bechdel, Alison 82
Fun Home. See Fun Home
Becker, Harold 42
Unnamable, The. See Unnamable, The
Waiting for Godot. See Waiting for Godot
Worstward Ho. See Worstward Ho
Believer Book Award 132
Bellow, Saul 207
Herzog. See Herzog
Belsey, Catherine 111
Bentham, Jeremy 172
Bible, the 34
Bilder, Geoffrey 24
reading-avoidance techniques. See reading-avoidance techniques
Billet, Stephen 106
Black aesthetic 186
Bleeding Edge 194, 195, 196, 198
Bloody Chamber, The 179
Anxiety of Influence, The. See Anxiety of Influence, The
Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, The. See Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, The
Boas, Franz 154
Bolaño, Roberto 28, 52, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 128, 134, 159, 187, 192
2666. See 2666
Amulet. See Amulet
Bone Clocks, The 19
Bourdieu, Pierre 52, 93, 108, 132
strategies of condescension. See strategies of condescension
Brecht, Bertolt 98, 99, 195, 196, 197
Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The. See Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The
Brontë, Charlotte 127
Jane Eyre. See Jane Eyre
Buried Giant, The 96
Burroughs, William 186
Byatt, A.S. 164
Possession. See Possession
C 51, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 87, 159, 161
anagrams 78
as literary-historical fiction 66
structure of 80
Calling all Agents 61
campus novel 17, 18, 46, 48, 52, 136, 189, 190, 191
as complex 48
canon 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 39, 42, 57, 58, 60, 62, 72, 73, 74, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 115, 159, 165, 208
Canon Wars. See Canon Wars
gender bias 21
racial bias 21
Bloody Chamber, The. See Bloody Chamber, The
Carter, Ian 17
Cather, Willa 146
My Ántonia. See My Ántonia
Chaucer, Geoffrey 201
Cicero 13
class 165, 177, 178, 180, 182, 183
Cleansed 51
College of Santa Fe 132
Coming from Behind 49
Commitment 98
Coover, Robert 124
Cornell University 144
Cow Country 49
creative writing programmes 18, 21, 38, 116, 145
Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life, The 172
Critchley, Simon 60
Necronautical Society. See Necronautical Society
critical disability studies 21, 32
Critical Inquiry 53, 194, 199, 200, 201, 203
critique 16, 20, 28, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 45, 51, 52, 53, 72, 78, 86, 87, 91, 92, 94, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 111, 116, 132, 133, 134, 136, 144, 146, 153, 156, 159, 160, 173, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 207, 208
Critique of Pure Reason 35
Cronin, Sheila M. 49
Gift Counselor: A Novel, The. See Gift Counselor: A Novel, The
Crying of Lot 49, The 194
crypto-didacticism 52, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 100, 103, 107, 116
Culler, Jonathan 16
Metafiction. See Metafiction
Cyborg Manifesto 129
Dalkey Archive Press 193
Dames, Nicholas 41
Danielewski, Mark Z. 58, 68, 69, 70, 83, 84, 85, 159
House of Leaves. See House of Leaves
Davidson, Cathy N. 36
Dear Committee Members 49
de Bruyn, Ben 46
de Groot, Jerome 66
de Kooning, Willem 83
Deleuze, Gilles 61
DeLillo, Don 60, 73, 77, 78, 124, 140, 141, 190
Libra. See Libra
Point Omega. See Point Omega
Underworld. See Underworld
White Noise. See White Noise
Zero K. See Zero K
de Man, Paul 33
Derrida, Jacques 29, 30, 60, 83, 84, 119, 133, 142, 168, 192
Law of Genre, The. See Law of Genre, The
determination in the last instance 161
Dialectic of Enlightenment 152
Dick, Alexander 40
digital humanities 25, 26, 27, 28, 37, 175
distant reading. See distant reading
stylometry. See stylometry
discipline 15, 20, 30, 36, 37, 42, 44, 50, 51, 53, 57, 58, 59, 106, 110, 115, 116, 150, 155, 160, 175, 183, 200, 202, 203, 207, 208
Discipline and Punish 172
Doctorow, E.L. 124
Don Quixote 29
Dos Passos Prize 132
double negation 131
Dove, Patrick 94
Eaglestone, Robert 22, 23, 24, 185
ecocriticism 87
Eco, Umberto 18, 30, 41, 72, 105, 124, 202
Interpretation and Overinterpretation. See Interpretation and Overinterpretation
model reader. See model reader
Name of the Rose, The. See Name of the Rose, The
Egan, Jennifer 46, 52, 135, 136, 137, 138, 141, 142, 143, 145, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 154, 155, 156, 160, 175
Invisible Circus, The. See Invisible Circus, The
Keep, The. See Keep, The
Look at Me. See Look at Me
Visit from the Goon Squad, A. See Visit from the Goon Squad, A
Electra complex 149
Ellison, Ralph Waldo 117
English, James F. 22, 132, 193
English studies. See university English
Epic of Gilgamesh 12
Erasure 49, 52, 116, 117, 118, 120, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 160, 192, 193
Ercolino, Stefano 196
Maximalist Novel, The. See Maximalist Novel, The
Everett, Percival 34, 49, 52, 75, 116, 118, 119, 120, 122, 125, 128, 129, 131, 133, 134, 136, 146, 154, 159, 160, 192, 193
Erasure. See Erasure
I Am Not Sidney Poitier. See I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Exodus 110
Fabulators, The 29
Felski, Rita 15, 23, 36, 39, 95
feminist criticism 21, 32, 57, 84, 85, 108, 149, 153, 173, 176, 182, 186
Feminist Press 22
Flax, Jane 32
Foucault, Michel 19, 29, 35, 106, 129, 134, 142, 144, 150, 164, 165, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 182, 183, 191, 208
Discipline and Punish. See Discipline and Punish
Fowles, John 124, 145, 163, 171
French Lieutenant’s Woman, The. See French Lieutenant’s Woman, The
Franzen, Jonathan 82
Freedom. See Freedom
Freedom 82
French Lieutenant’s Woman, The 145, 171
Frost, Laura 50
Fun Home 82
Gaddis, William 124
Genesis of the Castration Complex, The 150
genetic criticism 31
genre 12, 20, 22, 23, 44, 49, 51, 53, 59, 64, 65, 66, 68, 72, 136, 144, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, 182, 183, 190
as process of systematisation 167, 168, 169, 175
Gift Counselor: A Novel, The 49
Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, A 73, 132
Glass Bead Game, The 188
Goldberg, David Theo 36
Grafton, Anthony 69
Grant, Linda 49
Upstairs at the Party. See Upstairs at the Party
Grant, Stephen 49
Moment More Sublime, A. See Moment More Sublime, A
Gravity’s Rainbow 19, 72, 74, 118, 162, 195
Groundhog Day 123
Guardian, The 61
Gulliver’s Travels 100
Habermas, Jürgen 123
Hall, Steven 61
Hall, Stuart 115
Haraway, Donna 129
Cyborg Manifesto. See Cyborg Manifesto
Hartley, John 115
Harvard University 199
Hayles, N. Katherine 36
Hay, Louis 31
Heidegger, Martin 119
hermeneutic cycle 18
Herzog 207
Hesse, Herman 188
historical fiction 63, 65, 66, 67, 71, 72, 174
accuracy of 67
Historical Novel Society, the 65
historiographic metafiction 161, 162, 165, 167, 171
historiography 68, 70, 81, 161, 162, 165, 171, 173, 182, 201
Hitchens, Henry 110
Hofstadter, Douglas R. 84
Hoggart, Richard 115
Holocaust, the 96, 99, 127, 159
Hoodoo 186
Horkheimer, Max 152
Dialectic of Enlightenment. See Dialectic of Enlightenment
Horney, Karen 150
Genesis of the Castration Complex, The. See Genesis of the Castration Complex, The
House of Leaves 58, 59, 60, 68, 69, 70, 85, 118, 159
imprint page 84
Hughes, Thomas 49
Tom Brown at Oxford 49
Human Stain, The 48
Hume, David 13
Hume, Kathryn 186
critical not-reading 25
Hunter, Ian 16
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction 132
Hutcheon, Linda 29, 70, 71, 161, 165
historiographic metafiction. See historiographic metafiction
Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox. See Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox
Hypothesizing After Results are Known 44, 45
I Am Not Sidney Poitier 116
incursion 31, 47, 51, 72, 168, 208
Infinite Jest 69
Inherent Vice 195
Interpretation and Overinterpretation 202
Invisible Circus, The 135, 137, 138, 148, 155
Ionesco, Eugène 83
Iowa Review 29
irony 50, 52, 64, 74, 124, 125, 129, 144, 151, 195, 197, 198, 202
Irving, David 127
Ishiguro, Kazuo 96
The Buried Giant. See Buried Giant, The
Ivy League universities 187
Iyer, Lars 3
Spurious. See Spurious
Jackson, Melanie 75
Jacobson, Howard 49
Coming from Behind. See Coming from Behind
James, Henry 171
Turn of the Screw, The. See Turn of the Screw, The
Jane Eyre 127
Japanese by Spring 189, 190, 191, 192, 194
Jargon of Authenticity, The 98
Johnson, Sarah 65
Journal of Memespace Cartography 195, 198
Ulysses. See Ulysses
Jung, Carl 149
Kane, Sarah 51
Cleansed. See Cleansed
Critique of Pure Reason. See Critique of Pure Reason
Keep, The 137, 142, 143, 145, 147, 155, 156
Kelly, Adam 38, 48, 125, 126, 139, 143, 197
American Fiction at the Millennium: Neoliberalism and the New. See American Fiction at the Millennium: Neoliberalism and the New
New Sincerity. See New Sincerity
Kempf, Paul Friedrich ‘Fritz’ 66, 67, 68
Keucheyan, Razmig 130
King Rat 163
King’s College, Cambridge 40
King, Stephen 84
Kubrick, Stanley 84
Lacan, Jacques 139, 150, 191, 195, 196
Lamont, Michelle 39
Latour, Bruno 36
Law of Genre, The 168
Lawrence, D.H. 31
LeClair, Tom 196
Art of Excess, The. See Art of Excess, The
legitimation 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 35, 39, 40, 42, 50, 51, 52, 86, 116, 120, 132, 134, 135, 136, 156, 159, 160, 175, 190, 202, 203, 207, 208
Leitch, Vincent 42
Levine, Caroline 89
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 149
Leypoldt, Günter 39
Libra 140
literary criticism. See university English
literary fiction 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 39, 51, 59, 60, 61, 116, 124, 134, 150, 173
and politics 88
literary markets 20, 21, 22, 24, 35, 44, 105, 168
literary prizes 25, 118, 132, 160, 193
literary realism 53, 60, 63, 64, 118, 124, 151, 171
as psychopathy 63
literary studies. See university English
Liu, Alan 16
Llewellyn, Mark 162, 174, 177, 182
logos 12
London Review of Books 61
Look at Me 137, 138, 139, 141, 142, 143, 147
Lorde, Audre 190
Lovecraft, H.P. 163
Lupton, Christina 40
Lyons, John 17
MacDowell, Andie 123
Machery, Pierre 30
Mailer, Norman 186
Malinowski, Bronisław Kasper 154
Mandel, Emily St. John 144
Station Eleven. See Station Eleven
Mantel, Hilary 88
Marinescu, Andreea 92
Marin, Louis 96, 97, 101, 102, 106
Markovits, Elizabeth 120, 123, 125
Marxist criticism 21, 30, 32, 57, 85, 115, 129, 165, 183, 213
Theses on Feuerbach. See Theses on Feuerbach
Mason & Dixon 162
Maximalist Novel, The 197
May 1968 48, 102, 103, 138, 155
Mayhew, Henry 172
Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life, The. See Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life, The
Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, A. See Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, A
McCarthy, Tom 28, 51, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 107, 159, 161, 169, 208
C. See C
Calling all Agents. See Calling all Agents
Men in Space. See Men in Space
Navigation Was Always a Difficult Art. See Navigation Was Always a Difficult Art
Necronautical Society. See Necronautical Society
Remainder. See Remainder
Satin Island. See Satin Island
Tintin and the Secret of Literature. See Tintin and the Secret of Literature
McGurl, Mark 21, 22, 38, 143, 147
MELUS. See Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States
metafiction 12, 15, 20, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 47, 48, 49, 52, 53, 70, 78, 79, 87, 88, 90, 91, 93, 107, 110, 116, 124, 126, 134, 136, 142, 143, 150, 151, 156, 159, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 167, 168, 171, 174, 178, 181, 182, 191, 194, 202, 208
as critique 28, 30, 31, 35, 37
as politically abortive 31, 32, 34, 35
history of 29
inadequecy of self knowledge 29
incompatibility with postmodernism 29
Metafiction 29, 35, 37, 161, 185, 208
Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction 29
MFA programmes. See creative writing programmes
King Rat. See King Rat
Bone Clocks, The. See Bone Clocks, The
Cloud Atlas. See Cloud Atlas
modernism 31, 39, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 66, 68, 73, 74, 75, 78, 80, 81, 82, 96, 124, 139, 162, 185, 197
Moment More Sublime, A 49
Monk, Thelonius Sphere 117
Moore, Lorrie 75
Utopia. See Utopia
Slaughterhouse of Literature, The. See Slaughterhouse of Literature, The
Morrison, Toni 186
Morse code 79
Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States 22
Murray, Bill 123
My Ántonia 146
Nabokov, Vladimir 49
Pale Fire. See Pale Fire
Pnin. See Pnin
Name of the Rose, The 105
Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox 29
Native Son 117
Navidson Record, The 69, 83, 85
Navigation Was Always a Difficult Art 61
Neale, Stephen 167
Necronautical Society 60
neoliberalism 52, 94, 102, 104, 105, 106, 111, 196
New American Writing Award 132
New Criticism 27, 37, 126, 191, 201
New Yorker, The 149
New York Times 74
Nicomachean Ethics 121
Nieland, Justus 64
Nietzsche, Friedrich 129
No More Modernisms 197
NW 19
Octet 125
Oedipus complex 150
O’Leary, Timothy 91
Omlor, Daniela 94
On Beauty 39, 40, 41, 43, 108, 109
On Beauty and Being Just 40
Orwell, George 134
Osborne, Peter 150
Osiris 71
Packham, Catherine 13
Paglia, Camille 84
Pale Fire 49
paranoid reading 68
parody 21, 40, 48, 69, 76, 84, 85, 116, 117, 119, 129, 130, 131, 133, 154, 160, 196, 197, 198
Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre 29
pastiche 21
Patterson, Orlando 122
Pearson, Adrian Jones 49
Cow Country. See Cow Country
Pelaez, Sol 94
PEN Center USA Award for Fiction 131
PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award 132
phonos 12
Pnin 49
Point Omega 140
police 52, 91, 92, 93, 101, 103, 106, 107, 159
Pollack, Sarah 101
Possession 164
postcolonial criticism 21, 32, 57, 85, 87, 94, 104, 127, 130, 152
Postcolonial Studies Association 22
postmodernism 12, 15, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 48, 51, 52, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 66, 68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 86, 90, 118, 119, 120, 123, 124, 125, 133, 135, 137, 140, 143, 156, 161, 162, 182, 185, 186, 187, 190, 191, 193, 194, 195, 197, 198, 202, 208
poststructuralism 27, 32, 33, 37, 83, 85, 96, 119, 139
Pound, Ezra 31
Powers, Richard 124
Practical Criticism 201
Proctor, Mortimer R. 17
Proust, Marcel 147
psychoanalysis 121, 149, 150, 153, 154
publishers 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 58, 117, 132, 199
financial risk 24
labour 23
Push 117
p-value 45
Pynchon, Thomas 19, 49, 58, 60, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 82, 83, 102, 118, 124, 133, 140, 153, 162, 163, 164, 186, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 201, 208
Against the Day. See Against the Day
Bleeding Edge. See Bleeding Edge
Gravity’s Rainbow. See Gravity’s Rainbow
Inherent Vice. See Inherent Vice
The Crying of Lot 49. See The Crying of Lot 49
V. See V.
queer criticism 57
Raghinaru, Camelia 90
Rank, Otto 195
Trauma of Birth, The. See Trauma of Birth, The
reading-avoidance techniques 25, 48
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto 126
Recalcitrance, Faulkner, and the Professors: A Critical Fiction 49
Reed, Ishmael 53, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 198, 200, 201, 202, 203, 208
Japanese by Spring. See Japanese by Spring
Juice!. See Juice!
Mumbo Jumbo. See Mumbo Jumbo
Reinares, Laura Barberán 95
Remainder 60, 62, 63, 64, 74, 87
Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The 99
Rhoades, Gary 105
Rice, Anne 84
Practical Criticism. See Practical Criticism
Ricœur, Paul 15
Rodríguez, Fermín A. 94
Roof, Judith 117
Rossen, Janice 17
Human Stain, The. See Human Stain, The
writing back. See writing back
sadomasochism 171
Sapphire 117
Push. See Push
Sarrasine 118
Sartre, Jean-Paul 98
satire 19, 21, 116, 135, 154, 160, 189, 190, 200
On Beauty and Being Just. See On Beauty and Being Just
scholarly communications 53, 198, 202
Fabulators, The. See Fabulators, The
Metafiction 29
Schumacher, Julie 49
Dear Committee Members. See Dear Committee Members
Scott, Walter 65
Waverley. See Waverley
Selden, Raman 30
self-publishing 23
Self, Will 62
serials crisis 199
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. See Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Shklovsky, Viktor 33
Showalter, Elaine 17
sincerity 52, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133, 151, 195, 197
Slaughterhouse-Five 127
Slaughterhouse of Literature, The 23
Slaughter, Sheila 105
Smith, Barbara Herrnstein 73, 93
Smith, Sarah A. 176
Smith, Shawn 162
Smith, Zadie 19, 39, 40, 41, 62, 108
NW. See NW
On Beauty. See On Beauty
Soyinka, Wole 75
Spiotta, Dana 47
Eat the Document. See Eat the Document
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorti 130
Springer, Jerry 117
Spurious 3
Stanford University 21
statistical significance. See p-value
strategic essentialism 129, 130
strategies of condescension 92, 108, 110
structuralism 37, 149, 150, 154
Swift, Graham 80
Waterland. See Waterland
Gulliver’s Travels. See Gulliver’s Travels
symptomatic reading 19, 36, 43, 95
Tale of the Eloquent Peasant 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 42
taxonomographic metafiction. See taxonomography
taxonomography 53, 163, 164, 165, 168, 172, 176, 181, 182, 183
telegraphy 79
Thatcher, Margaret 88
Theory 16, 19, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 41, 88, 118, 133, 134, 135, 139, 143, 144, 150, 151, 154, 155, 160, 164, 172, 185, 191, 196, 198
Theses on Feuerbach 185
Thompson, Hunter S. 84
Thornton, Sarah 61
Times Higher Education 50
Tintin and the Secret of Literature 60
Tom Brown at Oxford 49
Toussaint, Jean-Philippe 61
Trauma of Birth, The 195
Trilling, Lionel 120, 121, 123, 124
Tristram Shandy 33
Tudor, Andrew 166
Turn of the Screw, The 171
Underworld 140
university. See university English
University College London 115
university English 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43, 45, 49, 51, 53, 57, 58, 59, 60, 72, 86, 91, 96, 107, 111, 115, 116, 134, 150, 151, 154, 155, 159, 161, 188, 200, 201, 203, 207, 208
and idealism 43
and politics 89
geographical specificity of 50
history of 115
object of study 30
reading practices. See academic readers
university fiction. See campus novel
University of California, Berkeley 148, 149, 194
University of Chicago Press 200
University of London 115
University of Southern California 116
University of Turin 138
Unnamable, The 139
Upstairs at the Party 49
value 13, 16, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 33, 36, 51, 57, 59, 63, 84, 86, 91, 97, 105, 107, 115, 132, 188, 200
Varèse, Edgard 83
Visit from the Goon Squad, A 46, 52, 137, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 213
Slaughterhouse-Five. See Slaughterhouse-Five
von Richthofen, Manfred Albrecht Freiherr 68
Waiting for Godot 51
Walker, Alice 186
Wallace, David Foster 33, 69, 82, 124, 125, 126, 151, 191, 195, 197
E Unibus Pluram. See E Unibus Pluram
Infinite Jest. See Infinite Jest
Octet. See Octet
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way. See Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the 65
Wark, McKenzie 62
Waterland 80
Waters, Sarah 3, 19, 28, 34, 46, 53, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 208
Affinity. See Affinity
Fingersmith. See Fingersmith
Tipping the Velvet. See Tipping the Velvet
Waugh, Patricia 29
Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. See Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction
Waverley 65
Weber, Samuel 176
Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, The 84
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way 82
Whitman, Walt 126
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 74, 83, 160, 166
Wordsworth, William 58
Wozniak, Steve 84
Wright, Austin M. 49
Recalcitrance, Faulkner, and the Professors: A Critical Fiction. See Recalcitrance, Faulkner, and the Professors: A Critical Fiction
Wright, Richard 117
Native Son. See Native Son
Zamora, Daniel 183
Zero K 140
Žižek, Slavoj 196