Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The authority of the author: The novel as document: the "docufiction" of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac
  • The man in Buffalo: telling (,) the teller (,) and the told in the fiction of Raymond Federman
  • pt. 2. The authority of the discourse: Harry Mathews' Selected declarations of dependence: proverbs and the forms of authority
  • The word and the flesh: the infinite pornographic text
  • pt. 3. The authority of the reader: The reader who reads and the reader who is read: a reading of Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler
  • The author and the I in the fiction of J.L. Marcus.