POSTMODERNISM
- Extensive discussion of postmodern authors, texts, and strategies in Unnatural Voices, Unnatural Narrative (especially Chapter 6, “Unnatural Narratives in the Twentieth Century,” 121-142), and A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-first Century.
- “Nabokov’s Experiments and the Question of Fictionality.” Storyworlds, vol. 3, 2011, pp. 73-92.
- “A Theory of Narrative Beginnings and the Beginnings of ‘The Dead’ and Molloy.” in Narrative Beginnings, edited by Brian Richardson, U of Nebraska P, 2008, pp. 113-126.
- Review of Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique by Christian Moraru. The Comparatist, vol. 27, 2003, pp. 183-185.
- “Beyond Story and Discourse: Narrative Time in Postmodern and Non-Mimetic Fiction.” [revised and expanded version of part of “Narrative Poetics and Postmodern Transgression”], Narrative Dynamics, edited by Brian Richardson, Ohio State UP, 2002, pp. 47-63.
- “Voice and Narration in Postmodern Drama.” New Literary History, vol. 32, 2001, pp. 681-694.
- “Denarration in Fiction: Erasing the Story in Beckett and Others.” Narrative, vol. 9, no. 2, 2001, pp. 168-175.
- “The Genealogies of Ulysses, the Invention of Postmodernism, and the Narratives of Literary History.” ELH, vol. 67, no. 4, 2000, pp. 1035-1054.
- “Narrative Poetics and Postmodern Transgression: Theorizing the Collapse of Time, Voice, and Frame.” Narrative, vol. 8, no. 1, 2000, pp. 23-42.
- “Re-Mapping the Present: The Master Narrative of Modern Literary History and the Lost Forms of Twentieth-Century Fiction.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 43, no. 3, 1997, pp. 291-309.
- Chapter 7 on Causality and Coincidence in Postmodern Narrative in Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative. Discusses texts by Stanislaw Lem, Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, John Hawkes, Angela Carter, Tom Stoppard, and Bharati Mukherjee.