After Poststructuralism: Interdisciplinarity and Literary Theory Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
I	Poststructuralism and Interdisciplinarity: Questions of Models, Assumptions, and Definitions	11
	The New Interdisciplinarity in Literary Criticism	13
	"I Am I Because My Little Dog Knows Me": Prolegomenon to a Theory of Mimesis	45
	Simulacra, or, Vicissitudes of the Imprecise	71
II	Poststructuralism and the Pragmatic Test: Theory in the World of Art and Criticism	89
	From Text to Work	91
	Play, Mutation, and Reality Acceptance: Toward a Theory of Literary Experience	105
	The Crisis of the Literary Left: Notes toward a Renewal of Humanism	127
	When No Means No and Yes Means Power: Locating Masochistic Pleasure in Film Narratives	141
III	Revisionary Interdisciplinarity: A Selection of New Approaches	153
	Razing the Framework: Reader-Response Criticism after Fish	155
	Remodeling Truth, Power, and Society: Implications of Chaos Theory, Nonequilibrium Dynamics, and Systems Science for the Study of Politics and Literature	177
	For the Time Being: Sideshadowing, Criticism, and the Russian Countertradition	203
	Notes on Contributors	233