NARRATIVE AFTER DECONSTRUCTION -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. THE NARRATIVE TURN -- Deconstruction and Narrative -- Narrative Totality and Narrative Openness -- Recent Theories of Materiality -- 2. DECONSTRUCTION AND THE WORLDLY TEXT -- Localizing Deconstruction -- Rethinking Deconstructive Space -- Producing Space in the Worldly Text -- The Multiple Spaces of Post-Deconstructive Narrative -- Derrida after Deconstruction -- 3. THE SEARCH FOR FORM IN AMERICAN POSTMODERN FICTION -- Problems in the Poetics of Postmodern Fiction -- Defining Form in Postmodern Fiction -- Negotiating Materiality in Postmodern Fiction -- 4. A GENERAL OR LIMITED NARRATIVE THEORY? -- Universal Narrative Forms? -- Revisiting Spatial Form -- The Feel of Multiple Spaces -- 5. RESISTING POST-DECONSTRUCTIVE SPACE -- Space and Commodity Culture -- Jameson's Resistance to Postmodern Space -- The Open Landscape -- 6. READING TIME -- Temporality in the Worldly Text -- Theories of Reading Process -- A Poetics of the Hesitating Text -- One and Several Sites -- 7. STRUGGLING WITH OBJECTS -- Respect for the Concrete -- Problems of the Antihegemonic Concrete -- Describing Whole Objects -- 8. NARRATIVE AND POST-DECONSTRUCTIVE ETHICS -- Ethics after Deconstruction -- The Ruins of the Other -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Preface -- 1. The Narrative Turn -- 2. Deconstruction and the Worldly Text -- 3. The Search for Form in American Postmodern Fiction -- 4. A General or Limited Narrative Theory? -- 5. Resisting Post-Deconstructive Space -- 6. Reading Time -- 7. Struggling with Objects -- 8. Narrative and Post- Deconstructive Ethics -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.