History and refusal: consumer culture and postmodern theory in the contemporary American novel

Introduction: Theory, Fiction, and Late-Capitalist Consumer Culture

1. "The Devil's Visions": Postmodernism Homeopathic and Accidental in John Gardner's October Light and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho

2. History, Refusal, and the Strategic-Essentialist Politics of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland

3. Bombs from Coke Cans: Appropriating Mass Culture in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country and Mark Leyner's Et Tu, Babe

4. Subjects, Objects, and the Postmodern Differend in Don DeLillo's White Noise.