Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Generic Turn? Toward a Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel.
Part One. Genre at the End of Postmodernism
1 Aliens in America: Toni Morrison, Steven Spielberg, and the Ends of Postmodernism
Philipp Löffler
2 The Digital Intensification of Postmodern Poetics
Lai-Tze Fan
3 The Black Box of Genre in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and Charles Yu's How to Live Safelyin a Science Fictional Universe
Stephen Hock
4 Self-Parody and the Aesthetics of Literary Transgression in John Hawkes's An Irish Eye and Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice
Salwa Karoui-Elounelli
5 Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction: The Case of Dave Eggers's You Shall Know Our Velocity
Virginia Pignagnoli
Part Two. High and Low, Literary and Popular
6 Techno-Anxiety and the Middlebrow: Science-Fictionalization in the Fictional Mainstream of the Early Twenty-First Century
Roger Bellin
7 Post-Apocalypse Now-Cormac McCarthy's The Road as Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
Yonatan Englender and Elana Gomel
8 Ghostly Presences: Nostalgia, the Literary Market, and the Cultural Work of Genre in Stephen King's Joyland
Clemens Spahr
9 Postmodern Autonomy and the Poetics of Genre in Matt Ruff's Novels
Annette Schimmelpfennig and Tim Lanzendörfer
10 Purposing the Familiar: Genre, Repetition, and Anxiety in Breat Easton Ellis's Lunar Park
Gavin F. Hurley
Part Three. Revisiting Traditional Genre(s)
11 The Heirs of Don Quixote: Representations of the World-Shaping Powers of Genre in Contemporary Fiction
Martina Allen
12 Reimagining Genre in the Contemporary Immigrant Novel.
Katie Daily-Bruckner
13 Looking Beneath the Surface: Self and Genre in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland
Tim De Jong
14 Connecting Travel Writing, Bildungsroman, and Therapeutic Culture in Dave Eggers's Literature
Robert Mousseau
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