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Abbott, H. Porter, 150n.5, 15051n.7

Alter, Robert, 6
Amalgamemnon (Brooke-Rose): and
deconstructive metalepsis, 85; focalizor of, 87; and the postmodern subject, 8284, 85, 128; and the reader,
84; and suspension, 94
ambiguity, 132, 137; celebration of, 124,
128; of gender, 11213, 12224, 125,
126; irresolvable, 121, 129; narrative,
87, 88; of narrative levels, 32, 113;
and the reader, 19, 48, 72, 121; of
real and unreal, 125, 128; of reference, 72; and transformative metalepsis, 130
Armstrong, Isobel, 16263n.1
At Swim-Two-Birds (OBrien), 78,
1116, 35, 60, 106, 108; metalepsis
in, 12, 105
author: actual, 38; construction of by
characters, 14; dramatized, 3839, 53,
56, 63, 120, 153n.20; implied, 38;
levels of, 48; as torturer, 39
authority, 56, 94
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 79, 148n.19, 159n.24,
167n.25
Bal, Mieke, 14546nn.1, 2, 5, 149n.28,
156n.2
Barthes, Roland, 166n.24
Beckett, Samuel: and collapse of narrative
levels, 5053; and erasure, 37, 64;
essentialism in, 25; and inward metalepsis, 27, 4850; levels of narrative

in, 31, 32, 35, 38; and life as narrative

21; and metalepsis, 2022, 13435;
minimalism in, 28, 47, 135; and outward metalepsis, 27, 4648, 60, 134;
and the reader, 9, 25, 5356, 61, 64,
135, 151n.13; and reconstructive
metalepsis, 93; and repetition, 58, 61;
and subject construction, 126; the
trilogy of, 20, 37; and unwriting,
150n.6, 155n.36
Benjamin, Jessica, 15, 4245, 55, 60, 103,
109
Bernal, Olga, 151n.10
Bersani, Leo, and Ulysse Dutoit, 1718,
26, 33; on How It Is, 44; on Company,
154n.31
Between (Brooke-Rose), 22, 7882, 96;
feminism in, 157n.8; focalizor of, 69,
78, 79, 82, 83, 87; and the postmodern condition, 78, 85, 158n.22; and
the reader, 79, 82, 84; and the subject, 79, 128, 159n.24
bidirectionality. See oscillation
binary opposition, 66, 91; deconstruction
of, 86, 100, 105, 106, 108, 109, 121,
128, 131; escape from, 128; of essence
vs. appearance, 125; of gender, 113,
114, 131; inversion of, 99, 100, 112;
reconciliation of, 123
Birch, Sarah, 134, 161n.44
Bloody Chamber, The (Carter), 163n.2,
165n.13

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body: in Beckett, 14, 27, 3940, 52, 64,

82, 98, 15556n.37; in Brooke-Rose,
67, 79, 81; in Carter, 2, 14, 82, 96,
98, 100101, 117, 136; as a construction, 10, 41, 52; and erasure, 59;
reading of, 104; and subjectivity, 41,
43; womans, 101
Boehm, Beth, 131, 168n.33
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1, 17, 38
boundaries, 49, 71, 72, 128; blurring of,
71, 76, 130; breaching of, 33, 46, 86;
collapsing of, 85; deconstruction of,
136; destruction of, 50; dissolution of,
61, 64, 66, 67, 83, 135; erasure of,
27, 51; erection of, 5, 13, 26; fictionreality, 2, 3, 46, 50, 68, 95; firm, 99,
100; gender, 107; physical, 40; problematization of, 85; transgression of,
1011, 14; undoing of, 132; violation
of, 26, 27, 28, 133
Brater, Enoch, 61, 15455n.31,
156nn.38, 39
Bronfen, Elisabeth, 130
Brooke-Rose, Christine: and deconstruction, 105; and deconstructive metalepsis, 61; and deconstructive reading
method, 26, 78, 96; and instability of
narrative structure, 67; Intercom
Quartet of, 82, 96; and metalepsis,
2223, 13536; and politics, 66,
159n.26; and the postmodern condition, 2, 6469, 96, 97, 159n.26; and
postmodernism, 22; prepositional
novels of, 63, 64, 70, 135; and the
reader, 2, 22, 54, 64, 65, 67, 156n.4;
on reality, 1; and subjectivity, 161n.40
Brooks, Peter, 1718, 26, 56, 58, 140,
154n.29, 155n.35
brutality, 63, 67, 68
Butler, Judith: on the body, 10, 41, 52;
on gender, 97, 99, 107, 112,
148n.20, 164n.7; on political action,
141; on subject construction, 10,
2324, 37, 58, 99; on subversive repetition, 114

carnival (Bakhtin), 1011, 91, 118

Carter, Angela: and deconstructive reading
method, 96; and feminism, 2324,
27, 62, 96, 9798, 114, 128, 130,
132; and metalepsis, 2324, 13637;
and metaphorical metalepsis, 99, 107;
and patriarchy, 2, 20; and political
action, 24, 98, 100; and politics, 2,
93, 9798, 100, 117, 133; and the
reader, 98, 100, 105, 116, 12831,
136, 163n.3; and rhetoric, 130; and
sadism, 98; and subversive repetition,
2, 114; and violence, 96, 136, 163n.2
Cascando (Beckett), 24, 40, 5657
Caserio, Robert, 1719, 162n.52
causality, 72, 74, 158nn.18, 20
Clarissa (Richardson), 7
Clark, Robert, 114, 12930, 164n.11,
16566n.19
commodification of women, 99, 103
Company (Beckett), 29, 38, 61; and
deconstructive metalepsis, 135; and
inward metalepsis, 4950; and levels
of narrative, 15455n.31; and the
reader, 21, 5455, 64, 15455n.31;
and sharing of levels, 13; and subject
construction, 153n.27
constructionism, 3, 8, 1920, 133; in
Beckett, 26, 152n.19; in Brooke-Rose,
75, 92; in Carter, 910, 24, 97, 115,
162n.1; and narrative, 89; and torture, 4445. See also Butler, Judith;
de Lauretis, Teresa; Foucault, Michel
Crosman, Robert, 16667n.24
Culler, Jonathan, 68, 75, 138, 139, 140
41, 156n.5, 158n.20
Currie, Mark, 14142
cycle: of construction, 54, 98; life as a, 26,
28; of narrative, 27, 55, 57; of subject
construction, 29, 3536, 56, 60, 96
Dllenbach, Lucien, 151n.10
dark play, 118
death drive/instinct, 18, 26, 27, 28, 36,
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deconstruction, 66, 132, 145n.4, 156n.6,

158n.20; experience of, 77; of the
humanist subject, 64, 92; of narrative,
62, 87, 92, 94; as a practice, 140; of
polarity, 74, 141; uncodifiability of,
139
deconstructive metalepsis, 3, 19, 22, 61,
64, 79, 85, 93, 133, 137, 163n.3
Defoe, Daniel, 7
de Lauretis, Teresa: on the female in myth,
60; on the female reader, 19, 55, 138,
140, 148n.21; on the gaze, 163n.5,
166n.22; on the mythological hero,
46, 112, 153n.25; on narrative, 11,
57, 98, 138, 139, 149n.27; on narrative theory, 145n.3; on subject construction, 1, 10, 11, 19, 26, 37, 45,
46, 57, 58, 145n.3
De Man, Paul, 63, 66, 69, 74, 85, 141
Derrida, Jacques: on deconstruction, 105,
158n.20; on force/energetics, 132,
138, 141; on frames, 70, 71, 72; and
postmodernism, 15657n.7; on
Western metaphysics, 139
desire, 57, 109, 113, 117, 154n.29,
155n.35
Dhaen, Theo, 70
Diderot, Denis, 6, 86, 135
diegesis, 31, 86, 109
diegetic reader, 5, 16, 146nn.7, 8; in
Beckett, 3132, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39,
42, 54, 59, 61; in Brooke-Rose, 64,
66, 72, 84, 90; in Carter, 98, 105,
111, 114, 115, 116, 121
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 1, 17, 38
dramatized reader, 53, 54, 63, 115, 116,
121, 122, 125, 146n.9
eighteenth-century novel, 6, 32
Endgame (Beckett), 153n.27, 156n.5
energetics, 138, 139
erasure, 45, 81
Escher, M.C., 32, 151n.11
extradiegesis, 26, 53
extradiegetic reader, 5, 16, 146nn.7, 8; in

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Beckett, 36, 37, 38, 42, 59; in

Brooke-Rose, 66, 84; in Carter,
2324, 98, 105, 115, 116, 121, 125,
129
extratextual reader, 5, 1516, 146n.8; in
Beckett, 28, 32, 33, 37, 38, 39, 53,
54; in Brooke-Rose, 64, 66, 72, 87,
90; in Carter, 105, 111, 115, 116,
121, 122, 125, 129
fantasy, 102, 106, 122, 124
femininity, 107, 111, 125, 165n.17; construction of, 10, 99, 104, 105, 107,
108, 11112, 114; images of, 118,
120
Fetterley, Judith, 166n.23
Fielding, Henry, 6, 7, 147n.13
Film (Beckett), 50
fluidity: of narrative structure, 63; of postmodern world, 84, 109; of the subject, 64, 83, 96
flux (of postmodernism), 67, 69, 72, 78,
79, 84, 96, 128, 131, 157n.9
focalizor: function of, 64, 69; in BrookeRose, 22, 63, 64
Foucault, Michel: on the body, 10; on the
panopticon, 12627, 163n.5; on
power, 10; on reality, 65; on the subject, 8, 10, 13, 41, 65, 67; on torture,
15
frame: dissolution of, 131; role of in construction, 70, 71, 72
frames of narrative, 4, 7, 30, 31
framework of understanding: disruption
of, 66, 71, 157n.14; and the focalizor,
71; and the reader, 54, 70, 71, 96
Freud, Sigmund, 8, 15, 18, 19, 55, 59,
109, 15556n.37, 165nn.15, 17; on
the uncanny, 119, 123
gaze, 100, 115, 116, 117, 12628, 129,
163n.5
gender: construction of, 113, 114, 115,
122, 133, 140; deconstruction of, 99,
105, 11213, 114; proliferation of,

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99, 112, 114; roles, 103, 104, 105,

110, 11112; as system, 103, 105
Genette, Grard, 3, 30, 132, 135, 145
46nn.1, 2, 5, 146n.6
geometrics, 138, 140
Gibson, Andrew, 138, 148n.21
Goffman, Erving, 157n.14
Gontarski, S.E., 29, 150n.6, 152n.17,
155n.36
Grant, Damian, 161n.43, 162nn.47, 49
Grosz, Elizabeth, 102, 163n.6
Gullivers Travels (Swift), 106

11011, 117, 129; and reality status,

97; and rhetoric, 130
Iser, Wolfgang, 16667n.24

Heroes and Villains (Carter), 16364n.7,

164n.11
hierarchy, 89, 91, 92, 96, 100, 101, 113;
deconstruction of, 89, 90, 94, 95; and
framework of understanding, 17, 78;
in narrative structure, 2, 31, 32, 56,
67, 90; power, 39, 69, 133; reversal
of, 70, 74, 91, 92, 93, 95, 128; subversion of, 86, 99; undermining of,
127, 140
How It Is (Beckett): the body in, 4042;
and collapse of levels, 5253; narrative construction in, 41, 45; and outward metalepsis, 47; and physical violence, 14, 28, 4041; and power politics, 2122, 62; and the reader, 53,
55, 62; and sadomasochism, 4344;
and subject construction, 58, 110;
and unwriting, 59
human condition, 2, 20, 25, 28, 153n.25
Hutcheon, Linda, 147n.11
hyperspace, 79, 81, 94, 96
hypodiegesis, 26, 31, 49, 53, 80, 86, 109,
124, 146n.10; hypothesis as, 33, 34
hypodiegetic reader, 5, 16, 37

Lacan, Jacques, 93, 117, 153n.20,

161n.42, 166n.22
levels of narrative, 4, 12, 38, 54, 89, 132,
14546nn.1,5, 146n.6, 148n.21
Levy, Eric, 38, 153n.20
Locatelli, Carla, 57, 155n.36
Lotman, Jurij, 145n.4, 149n.27
Love (Carter): and rape, 164n.11; and the
reader, 121; tattoos in, 103105, 115
Loves of Lady Purple, The (Carter),
167n.27
Lyotard, Jean-Franois, 8, 65, 67

identity, 75, 80, 102

Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor
Hoffman, The (Carter): and the gaze,
115; and literal metalepsis, 99; and
postmodernism, 106; and rape, 14,
105107, 10811; and the reader,

Jakobson, Roman, 88, 161n.42

Jameson, Fredric, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 94,
158n.22, 159nn.24, 26
Jordan, Elaine, 16263n.1, 164n.11,
166n.20
Kappeler, Susanne, 165n.17
Kendrick, Walter, 163n.2

magic, 117, 119, 12425

Magic Toyshop, The (Carter), 118, 163n.2,
164n.11
Makinen, Merja, 129, 163n.2, 165n.13,
16566n.19, 168n.33
Marcus, Sharon, 15, 148n.20
Mascia-Lees, Frances and Patricia Sharpe,
101, 102103, 155n.34, 164n.9
masculinity, 107, 111, 125, 165n.17; construction of, 104, 111
McHale, Brian, 56, 17, 138, 147n.14,
149n.25, 15051n.7, 159n.28
McNamara, Susan, 147n.13
metalepsis: as collapse of levels, 5053;
definition of, 1, 37; diegetic-toextradiegetic, 36, 9192; diegetic-toextratextual, 64; diegetic-tohypodiegetic, 90, 119, 120, 122, 124;
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hypodiegetic-to-diegetic, 31, 34, 104;

interactive, 45; intertextuality as,
148n.19, 160nn.32, 33; and the postmodern condition, 75; as revolving
door, 134, 142; in rhetoric, 74, 141;
as sharing of levels, 13, 50, 54, 109;
and subject construction, 9, 10, 26,
133; as subversion of narrative, 132;
as violent, 3, 4, 10, 26, 39. See also
deconstructive metalepsis; mimetic
metalepsis; reader: and metalepsis;
reconstructive metalepsis; rhetorical
metalepsis; transformative metalepsis;
individual authors and novels
metaleptic bridge, 119, 125
metanarrative, 71. See also narrative: grand
Miller, J. Hillis, 138, 13940
mimesis, 36, 98
mimetic metalepsis, 9, 45, 67, 98
mise-en-abme, 5, 23, 30, 123, 124, 140
modernism, 6, 29, 33, 65, 78, 138, 146
47n.11, 15051n.7, 157n.9
Moorjani, Angela, 151n.8
More Pricks than Kicks (Beckett), 25
Mulvey, Laura, 98, 116, 163n.5
Murphy (Beckett), 61, 143
Musarra, Ulla, 147n.14
narrating: as imperative, 35, 44, 46, 49,
50, 57, 58, 133; as unending process,
5661
narrative: dynamics of, 3, 33; grand, 65, 67,
69, 75 (see also metanarrative); infinitude of, 49; master, 101, 120; middles,
19, 149n.26; narrative about, 27, 36,
37, 5253, 58, 13334; as nature of
life, 21, 25, 27, 28, 35; as nature of
subjectivity, 33, 38, 44, 133; as process,
19, 132, 138; repetition in, 2, 3, 19,
149n.26; as sadist, 4546; self-deconstructive aspects of, 138, 13940
narratology: 145nn.1, 2; deconstructive,
132, 13739, 14043; and metalepsis,
1, 132; psychoanalytic, 1719; and
sadomasochism, 1719; in Thru, 88

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Nealon, Jeffrey, 65, 66, 15657nn.6, 7

Nelles, William, 13
network, 67, 83
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 69, 74, 87, 152n.17,
158nn.18, 20
Nights at the Circus (Carter), 99, 134; and
ambiguity, 122; and deconstruction,
24, 117, 121; and deconstructive metalepsis, 19; and deconstructive reading
method, 128, 131; and feminism,
128, 167n.28, 168n.33; and the gaze,
12628; and politics, 24, 129; and
puppet play, 12128; and the reader,
121, 122, 129, 130; and subversive
metalepsis, 130
Oedipus, 55
ontology, 4, 12, 29, 75, 89, 90
oppression, 98, 100, 101, 137
oscillation, 55, 89, 110, 121, 139, 140,
142, 145n.4, 154n.30
Out (Brooke-Rose), 22, 7078, 143; and
constructionism, 77; and deconstruction, 70; and displacement, 7375;
and estrangement, 94; focalizor of, 17,
68, 73, 75, 82, 87; and frames, 71,
72; and framework of understanding,
17, 70, 71, 96; and the postmodern
condition, 71, 75, 79, 85; and psychic
violence, 69; and race, 71, 104; and
the reader, 70, 73, 75, 77, 158n.16;
and social identity, 74; and the subject, 76; and unwriting, 73
pain, 21, 36, 44, 47, 50, 55, 108; of subjectivity, 35, 36, 39, 4243, 46,
4849, 59, 98
Pale Fire (Nabokov), 14849n.23,
151n.13, 158n.16
Palmer, Paulina, 163n.2, 164n.11,
167n.28
Pamela (Richardson), 7
panopticon, 12628, 131
parody, 99, 101, 105106, 112, 114, 115,
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Passion of New Eve, The (Carter), 143,

166n.20; and gender construction,
11115; and politics, 117; and rape,
107108, 110, 11114; and the reader, 108, 121; and subject construction, 115
patriarchy: and power, 98, 126, 127, 133;
and subject construction, 100, 102
pleasure principle, 18
postmodern condition, 79, 94, 157n.7.
See also Lyotard, Jean-Franois;
Brooke-Rose, Christine
postmodern fiction, 6566, 14142
postmodernism, 12, 78, 22, 29, 66,
15051n.7
power, 104, 127; construction of, 107,
111; and the gaze, 127; phallic, 103,
104; politics, 22, 23, 7071; relations,
11, 14; sexual, 102
Proschan, Frank, 167n.25
Punter, David, 129
puppet play, 99, 11728, 167n.27; and
the destruction of the subject, 117,
118; and metalepsis, 119; and sadism,
118
Rabinowitz, Peter, 5, 16, 146nn.7, 8,
14849n.23, 151n.13
race, 70, 73, 74, 104
rape, 17, 98, 99, 10517, 164n.11; and
destruction of subjectivity, 107, 108,
110, 111; and gender construction,
107, 11112; patriarchal reading of,
107, 110, 117; and the reader, 115;
and sadomasochistic fantasy, 108
109; and subject construction, 10,
105, 106, 113
reader: complicity of, 117; construction
of, by narrative, 19, 33, 39, 93,
146n.7; as constructor of narrative
subject, 61, 126; as constructor of
text, 87; as creator of meaning, 116,
130, 146n.7; destabilization of, 68,
133; entrapment of, 7, 54, 117, 129,
130; levels of, 5, 9, 1516, 25, 29,

45, 48, 54, 61, 66, 67, 100, 130; and

metalepsis, 9, 27, 5356, 64, 78, 87,
89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 116, 135; and narrative violence, 15, 17, 26; as navigator of levels, 4; in psychoanalytic narratology, 26; reconstruction of, 129
31; and subject construction, 55, 130,
14748nn.17, 18; and textual death,
21, 154n.29; as torturer, 39, 42, 54;
undermining of subject status of, 64;
as victim, 54, 55; as violator, 115. See
also diegetic reader; dramatized reader;
extradiegetic reader; extratextual reader; hypodiegetic reader; individual
authors and novels
reader-response criticism, 5, 116, 156n.4,
166n.23
realist fiction, 6, 65, 133, 138
reality, 6, 8, 21, 38, 51, 67, 124
reality status, 106, 109
reconstructive metalepsis, 3, 27, 46, 99,
133, 134, 136, 137, 163n.3
Renton, Andrew, 152n.18
revolution, 95, 111, 112, 118, 127, 133
Rhetoric of the Unreal, A (Brooke-Rose),
63, 67, 93, 147n.15, 148n.19,
161n.42
rhetorical metalepsis, 9; in Beckett, 35,
37; in Brooke-Rose, 68; in Carter,
2324, 96, 98, 105, 111, 116, 117,
121, 128, 137
Richardson, Samuel, 7
Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith: in A Glance
Beyond Doubt, 8, 14748n.17,
150n.3, 15354n.28, 15455n.31,
157n.12; on narrative, 132,
14546nn.1, 2, 5; on Thru, 8687,
94, 147n.12, 151n.11, 156n.3,
157n.11, 159n.29, 16061n.35,
162n.48
Robinson, Sally, 129, 16263n.1,
165n.14, 167nn.28, 29
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 6, 7
Roof, Judith, 148n.21, 149n.26
Rubenstein, Roberta, 165n.18

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Sade, Marquis de, 18, 165n.17

Sadeian Woman, The (Carter), 9899,
165n.17
sadism, 98, 103
sadomasochism, 165n.17; and narrative,
1719; and power hierarchy, 110; and
subjectivity, 4246, 60, 109; theories
of, 15. See also Benjamin, Jessica
Sez, acun, 15, 101
Sage, Lorna, 163nn.1, 2
satire, 99, 111
Schapiro, Barbara Ann, 149n.28
Schechner, Richard, 118
Schor, Naomi, 166n.23
Schumann, Peter, 167n.25
Schwab, Gabriele, 4546, 148n.18,
149n.28, 152n.19, 153nn.20, 24,
154n.30
self. See subject
self-stories. See subject construction
sexuality, 8182, 102
Shadow Dance (Carter): and phallic power,
164n.8; and puppet play, 11821;
and the reader, 121; and tattoos, 101
103
Smith, Patricia, 103
Sterne, Laurence, 7, 135
Stirrings Still (Beckett), 61, 134, 156n.38
Stories, Theories and Things (Brooke-Rose),
65, 80
subject: ambiguous, 128; annihilation of,
27, 68, 106107; depth-model, 82,
115, 146n.6, 152n.19, 154n.30;
destruction of, 101, 104, 107; dissolution of, 87, 89; gendering of, 97;
humanist, 78, 80, 133, 134, 135,
138, 147n.11, 164n.11; naturally
metaleptic, 82, 131, 142; postmodern,
11, 22, 65, 68, 76, 80, 8284, 96,
121, 131, 149n.28; in process, 83;
production of the absent, 104; transitional, 68, 82
subjectification. See subject construction
subject construction, 11; in Beckett, 28,
34, 93, 96; in Carter, 93; continuity

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of, 14, 26; end of, 61; and erasure,

14; of female, 98, 121, 126; as imperative, 45, 46, 47, 49, 135; as interminable process, 45, 47, 52, 5661, 93;
necessary repetition of, 37, 58;
through narrative, 26; and power,
133; in real life, 99, 100; reciprocity
of, 51, 88, 9294; theories of, 18; as
torture, 49; and transgression of
boundaries, 14; and writtenness, 35.
See also Butler, Judith; de Lauretis,
Teresa; Foucault, Michel
subjectivity: concepts of, 2, 6, 8, 26, 69,
7475; evacuation of, 117; illusion of,
110, 127; impossibility of achieving,
93; loss of, 81; narrative, 149n.28
subjugation, 104; of women, 99, 103,
117, 120
suffering, 39, 40, 49, 109
Suleiman, Susan, 150n.30, 158n.22, 166
67n.24
Swift, Jonathan, 7
Tanner, Laura, 15
tattoos, 98, 99, 100105; and hypodiegesis, 101; and women, 101, 104,
155n.34
teleology, 2, 3, 18, 19, 26, 149n.26
Textermination (Brooke-Rose), 96, 136,
158n.17, 159n.27, 162n.50
Thru (Brooke-Rose), 22, 8496, 118; and
deconstruction, 69, 8485, 91, 95,
142; and deconstructive metalepsis,
19; and deconstructive reading method, 2223, 131; feminism in, 91; and
focalization, 69, 87; and hyperspace,
96; and narrative levels, 89; and the
postmodern condition, 85; and the
postmodern subject, 85; and politics,
90, 9495; and the
reader, 8485, 8788, 94, 95, 116;
and reciprocal subject construction,
110; and transformative metalepsis,
129
Todorov, Tzvetan, 145n.4, 166nn.23, 24

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Tom Jones (Fielding), 7, 147n.13

topography of narrative, 4, 5, 46, 146n.6,
150n.4
torture, 17, 103, 155n.33; in Beckett, 35,
62; as human/narrative condition,
3536, 39, 44; and language, 42; and
metalepsis, 14, 27; physical, 67; psychological, 25; of puppets, 119; and
subject construction, 42, 46, 101
transformative metalepsis, 9, 17; in
Beckett, 33, 35, 36, 38; in BrookeRose, 62, 68, 94, 129; in Carter, 100,
117, 129, 130
Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 7, 132
truth: absence of, 94; as multiple, 71, 79;
relativism of, 72, 73; self-undermining
nature of, 139; as story, 6465, 7980
uncanny, 119, 12324
Unnamable, The (Beckett), 20, 25, 36,
3840, 61; authority in, 48; the body
in, 40; and collapse of levels, 5052;
and the cycle of narrative, 5758; and
dramatized authors, 39; and ending,
56; and frameworks of understanding,
17; hypodiegesis in, 45; and levels of
narrative, 48; and outward metalepsis,
46, 134; and pain, 17, 39; and the
reader, 17, 5354, 154nn.29, 30; and
sadomasochism, 4243, 46, 153n.24;
and subject construction, 97,
152n.19; and torture, 45
vagina dentata, 102, 112

Verbivore (Brooke-Rose), 96
victimization, 27, 55, 106
Vieth, David, 7, 147n.12
violation, 98, 106
violence: of gender construction, 115;
intellectual, 1617, 149n.24; in narrative, 10, 15, 149n.26; of narrative, 21,
58, 99; physical, 4, 15, 1617, 40,
98, 149n.24; psychic, 69; and the
reader, 130; of subject construction,
121, 133, 137; theories of, 15
Warner, Marina, 16263n.1
Watson, David, 57, 151n.9, 152n.19,
153nn.20, 21
Watt (Beckett), 20, 28, 2936, 61, 135;
dramatized authors in, 2933,
151n.8; and framework of understanding, 32, 33; hypodiegetic-todiegetic metalepsis in, 3436, 151
52n.14; and the reader, 151n.13,
158n.16
Watt, Ian, 6
Webb, Kate, 16263n.1
what is the word (Beckett), 61, 156n.39
Winston, Matthew, 151n.12
Wise Children (Carter), 13637
Wittig, Monique, 165n.12
Worstward Ho (Beckett), 20, 27, 28,
3637, 81, 152n.18; and unwriting,
14, 4748, 5961, 155n.36
Xorandor (Brooke-Rose), 96

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