Powerless Fictions?: Ethics, Cultural Critique, and American Fiction in the Age of PostmodernismRicardo Miguel-Alfonso |
Contents
The Ethics | 25 |
Fictive Empowerment through Cultural Criticism | 63 |
Cultural Criticism as Lost Object | 113 |
The Conscience of the Reader in Late James | 138 |
Totality Lost Or Fredric Jameson | 173 |
Jerry A Varsava 173 13 | 197 |
Notes on Contributors 223 | |
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