Final Acts -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Finite and Infinite Games: Terminal Illness and the Genre of the Literary Memoir -- 2. The Critical Process of Symptom to Sinthome: Allon White's "Too Close to the Bone" -- 3. Working through the Four Discourses: Gillian Rose and the Products of Love's Work -- 4. Harold Brodkey'sTraversal of Fiction: This Wild Darkness as La Passe -- 5. Modern Frame for the Postmodern Image: Reclaiming the Gaze in Derek Jarman's Modern Nature and Blue -- Conclusion: The Genre of the Unconscious -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.