Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-190) and index.
The Narrative Turn -- Deconstruction and Narrative -- Narrative Totality and Narrative Openness -- Recent Theories of Materiality -- Deconstruction and the Worldly Text -- Localizing Deconstruction -- Rethinking Deconstructive Space -- Producing Space in the Worldly Text -- The Multiple Spaces of Post-Deconstructive Narrative -- Derrida after Deconstruction -- The Search for Form in American Postmodern Fiction -- Problems in the Poetics of Postmodern Fiction -- Defining Form in Postmodern Fiction -- Negotiating Materiality in Postmodern Fiction -- A General or Limited Narrative Theory? -- Universal Narrative Forms? -- Revising Spatial Form -- The Feel of Multiple Spaces -- Resisting Post-Deconstructive Space -- Space and Commodity Culture -- Jameson's Resistance to Postmodern Space -- The Open Landscape -- Reading Time -- Temporality in the Worldly Text -- Theories of Reading Process -- A Poetics of the Hesitating Text -- One and Several Sites -- Struggling With Objects -- Respect for the Concrete -- Problems of the Antihegemonic Concrete -- Describing Whole Objects -- Narrative and Post-Deconstructive Ethics -- Ethics after Deconstruction -- The Ruins of the Other.