GeneralEditorsPreface
ListofFigures
ANoteonReferences
Introduction:LastThingsFirst
Part1Histories
1.GleamingTwilight:Literature,Culture,andSociety
2.APostmodernAge?Literature,Ideas,andTraditions
(1).TheEndoftheModern
(2).ModernistandOtherLegacies
3.AnAgeofTheory?Critics,Readers,andAuthors
4.AGoldenAge?Readers,Authors,andtheBookTrade
(1).TheMoreCommonReader
(2).CommerceandConscience,LedgersandLiterature
Part2Poetry
5.MovementorRevival:TheLater95ostothe1980s
6.Counter-movementsandModernistMemories:1960tothe1980s
7.PoliticsandPostmodernism:TheLateI970sto2000
8.RosebayRevived:Language,Form,andAudienceforThisUnpopularArt
Part3Drama
9.APublicArtForm:TheLate1950stothe1970s
10.LastYearinJerusalem:PoliticsandPerformanceafter1968
11.RealRevolutionaries:PoliticsandtheMargins
12.Absurdism,Postmodernism,Individualism
13.DiscoveringtheBody
14.Revolution,Television,Subsidy
Part4Narrative
15.TotheCrossroads:StyleandSocietyinthe1960sand1970s
16.ADarkerRoute:MoralityandHistoryinthe1960sand1970s
17.LongerShadowsandDarknessRisible:The1970sto2000
18.DoubleLives:WomensWritingandGenderDifference
19.TheCenturyofStrangers:TravellersandMigrants
20.Genres,Carnivals,Conclusions
AuthorBibliographies
SuggestionsforFurtherReading
WorksCited
Index