Cover
Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Enemy Within
Taking enemies in
This multivariant plot
The vitality of difference
A lineage of wariness and influence
The terrible postmodern party
Part 1 Features of Redemptive Hybridism
1 The Redemptive Textual Body
Etymologically speaking
Umbilical connection, author to text
The Word made flesh
2 The Hybrid Middle
Pushing out towards ends
Sarraute as middle
Parataxis and the middle
Time and unfinishedness
3 Family Traits of Fragmentation
The fragmented mind

Constraint, minimalism, and the caveat
Vestibule and fringe
Ethics, alterity, and the reader
The ethical, the moral, and the difference
High, low, high, low, it's off to blend we go . . .
Part 2 Figures of Redemptive Hybridism
4 Woolf 's Atom
the Image of Hybridity
Begin with the atom, Virginia Woolf
Saturation in Woolf and Wallace
Mrs Dalloway as fertile ground
Inter-genre Woolf
It ends where it begins, with the atom
5 Finding a Name for Possibility
Postmodernism, feminism, and agency
Finding names and building frames

Call me[a]taxy: some recent pre-fixes
6 The Pale King 's Constellation
Factoids, Ghosts, and Boredom
Tell the truth, David Foster Wallace
Everyday ghosts, souls, and phantoms
Ambiguity and contradiction in The Pale King
Boredom: between crisis and epiphany
A Conclusion, of Sorts: This Is Not the End
References
Index