Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Language and Power: The Spaces of Critical Interpretation -- 2. Politicizing Ulysses: Rationalistic, Critical, and Genealogical Commentaries -- 3. Weighing Anchor: Postmodern Journeys from the Life-World -- 4. Political Economy and Mimetic Desire in Babette's Feast -- 5. American Fictions and Political Culture: DeLillo's Libra and Bellah et al.'s Habits of the Heart -- 6. Spatiality and Policy Discourse: Reading the Global City -- 7. Strategic Discourse/Discursive Strategy: The Representation of "Security Policy" in the Video Age -- 8. The Politics of Fear: DeLillo's Postmodern Burrow -- 9. Terminations: Elkin's Magic Kingdom and the Politics of Death -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.