Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index.
Contents
The Space of Literature -- Literary Space in McCarthy and Pynchon, Rushdie and Chaudhuri -- The Philosophical Background -- James Merrill and the Making of Literature -- The Radical Linguistic Turn in De Man and Perloff -- John Ashbery and Samuel Beckett -- New Historicism and Cultural Studies -- Literature and Regression, Benjamin, Derrida -- Literary Style and Transitional Space -- John Updike and the Scene of Literature.