Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-257) and index.
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Preliminaries. From modernist to postmodernist fiction: change of dominant -- Some ontologies of fiction -- Worlds. In the zone -- Worlds in collision -- A world next door -- Real, compared to what? -- Construction. Worlds under erasure -- Chinese-box worlds -- Words. Tropological worlds -- Styled worlds -- Worlds of discourse -- Groundings. Worlds on paper -- Authors: dead and posthumous -- How I learned to stop worrying and love postmodernism. Love and death in the post-modernist novel.