Introduction
Part Ⅰ Pioneering
Kingsley Amis
from Lucky jim
Jack Kerouac
from On the Road
Williams S. Burroughs
Cross the Wounded Galaxies (from The Soft Machine)
Samuel Beckett
from Watt
Vladimir Nabokov
from Pale Fire
Joseph Heller
from Catch-22
Flann O'Brien
from At Swim-Two-Birds
Part Ⅱ "Make It Strange"
Raymond Federman
Federman
John Fowles
from The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Barth
Lost in the Funhouse
B.S Johnson
Broad Thoughts from a Home
Ronald Sukenick
The Birds
William H. Gass
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Robert Coover
The Babysitter
Toni Morrison
from Beloved
Don DeLillo
from White Noise
Ishmael Reed
from Mumbo Jumbo
Part Ⅲ "Anything Goes"
Donald Barthelme
from Snow White
Angela Carter
from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Kathy Acker
from Great Expectations
Ursula Le Guin
from The Left Hand of Darkness
William Gibson
from Neuroman.cer
Thomas Pynchon
from The Crying of Lot 49
Paul Auster
from City of Glass
E.L. Doctorow
from Welcome to Hard Times
William Gaddis
from Ca7penter's Gothic
A.S. Byatt
from Possession: A Romance
Erica Jong
from Fear of Flying
David Lodge
from Small World: An Academic Romance
Salman Rushdie
from Midnight's Children
Appendixes
Appendix I ( John Barth : " The Literature of Replenishment :
Postmodernist Fiction" )
Appendix II (Leslie A. Fiedler: " Cross the Border -- Close that
Gap" )
Appendix III ( Umberto Eco : "Postscript to The Name of the Rose" )
Index of Literary Terms
Bibliography