Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first major study of Mark Z. Danielewski, an emerging, innovative American novelist and a key figure in contemporary literature. It situates his three novels to date in their literary and cultural context, in the process demonstrating why he is such an important and ground-breaking writer.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Joe Bray and Alison Gibbons
I. House of Leaves
1. This is not for you: Alison Gibbons
2. Katabasis in Danielewski’s House of Leaves and two other recent American novels: Finn Fordham
3. Houses of leaves, cinema and the new affordances of old media: Paul McCormick
4. This haunted house: Intertextuality and interpretation in Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves (2000) and Poe’s Haunted (2000): Mel Evans
5. Trickster authors and tricky readers on the MZD forums: Bronwen Thomas
II. The Fifty Year Sword
6. Reading the graphic surface of Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Fifty Year Sword: Glyn White
III. Only Revolutions
7. Only evolutions: Joyce and Danielewski’s works in progress: Dirk Van Hulle
8. Only Revolutions, or, the most typical poem in world literature: Brian McHale
9. Mapping time, charting data: the spatial aesthetic of Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions: N. Katherine Hayles
10. Print interface to time: Only Revolutions at the crossroads of narrative and history: Mark B. N. Hansen
11. Only Revolutions and the drug of rereading: Joe Bray
Contributors
Index
