Introduction / S. Trachtenberg
Review. Deconstructing deconstruction / D. Donoghue
Theory. Sheherazade (sic) runs out of plots, goes on talking; the king, puzzled, listens; an essay on new fiction / P. Stevick
The myth of the postmodern breakthrough / G. Graff
Postface 1982: toward a concept of postmodernism / I. Hassan
The problem of the postmodern / C.B. Chabot
Genre. Yuppie postmodernism / D. Kaufmann
Where are the missing contents? (Post)modernism, gender, and the canon / E.G. Friedman
Moving with the mainstream: a view of postmodern American science fiction / B. Donahoo.
Individual figures. Representation and multiplicity in four postmodern American novels / J. Johnston
Attenuated postmodernism: Pynchon's Vineland / D. Cowart
Hebrew/Greek, ear/eye, moral/aesthetic: Susan Sontag's bridging the "archaic gap" / S. Olster
"Every window is a mother's mouth": Grace Paley's postmodern voice / V. Aarons.