Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Theoretical and historical prologue
  • Ghosts and muses: Henry James
  • Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo
  • Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts
  • Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust
  • Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita
  • The American way and its double in Lot 49
  • From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise
  • Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction
  • Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis.