Ellipse of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Postmodern Fantasy

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Acknowledgments Prelude: Nameless Things and Thingless Names Diagnosing Fantastic Autism: Kafka, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet I Stink, Therefore I (S)am: Functions, Fantasy, Beckett Metamorphosis in Fuentes' Aura Pynchon's New Nature: Indeterminacy and The Crying of Lot 49 Misfires in Eden: Garcia Marquez and Narrative Frustration The Presence of Absence: Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians Postlude Bibliography Index