Preface: The Place of Narrative

Carol Jacobs

J. Hillis Miller and the Task of the Critic

Henry Sussman

Lying Against Death: Out of the Loop

J. Hillis Miller

Waiting in the Wings

Diane Elam

Parting Words: Trauma, Silence, and Survival

Cathy Caruth

The Other Day: The Interpretation of Daydreams

Rachel Bowlby

Difference Behind Similarity: Focalization in Third-Person Center-of-Consciousness and First-Person Retrospective Narration

Dan Shen

The ``Telepathy Effect'': Notes toward a Reconsideration of Narrative Fiction

Nicholas Royle

Trackings

Tom Cohen

The Rape of the Lock: A Jacobite Aesthetics?

Ronald Paulson

The Serpent in the Wilderness: Space, Place, and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century

W.J.T. Mitchell

Narrative Discourse and a New Sense of Value: Meaning and Purpose in the Neoclassical Economics of Alfred Marshall

Ronald Schleifer

Sidney's Technology: A Critique by Technology of Literary History

Alan Liu

``Le Parjure,'' Perhaps: Storytelling and Lying (``abrupt breaches of syntax'')

Jacques Derrida

Notes

Index