Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; Chapter 1: Introduction; Literary Postmodernism; The Structure of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century; References; Part I: Defining Postmodernism; Chapter 2: What Do the Theorists Say (and How Do They Fit)?; Chapter 3: Characteristically Postmodern; Metafiction; 'All the World's a Stage': Parody, Play, and Intertextuality; Isn't It Ironic?: Postmodern Irony; The Dominant of Postmodernist Fiction; References; Chapter 4: Mapping the Space of Postmodernism; The Call for a Spatial Metaphor

Postmodern Space, or the Cognitive Mapping of Late CapitalismThe Name of the Map: The Skein, the Maze, and the Net; Rhizome: The Postmodern Metaphor; Mapping (Hyper)Reality: The Orders of Simulacra; A 'Structure of Consciousness'; The Postmodern Structure of Consciousness; References; Part II: Postmodernism in Praxis; Chapter 5: Whodunit? And How Do We Know? (or Do We?): The Structure of the Epistemological Investigation in Detective Fiction; Chapter 6: What World Is This? Who Am I (in It)?: The Structure of the Ontological Formation in Science Fiction

Chapter 7: The Postmodern Novel: How It All Comes Together, in a Rhizomatic WayChapter 8: Coda: What Comes Next? (Or What to Do with a Problem Called Postmodernism?); Index