The big question

Pt. 1. What Is It? The Question of Postmodernism

Pt. 2. Poetry and Fiction. Blank (Verse) Generation. Our Poetic Grandparents. Interrupted Visions. Mark Strand's Dark Land. Who Killed Edwin Drood? The Ern Malley Poetry Hoax. Cynthia Ozick's Messiah. Philip Roth's Double

Pt. 3. Lives and Letters. Janet Malcolm and the Problem of Biography. Over Their Dead Bodies. Literal Lives. Philip Larkin's Letters. Frank O'Hara's Life. Old Man Rivers. James Merrill: Another Life. An Unsentimental Education. The Case of Michel Foucault

Pt. 4. Criticism and Controversy. Deconstruction after the Fall. Derridadaism. From Disclosure to Closure. The Heidegger Affair. Gettysburg, Deconstructed. Notes on Political Correctness.