Acknowledgements - Chapter Outlines - Introduction - PART 1 - Making The Author Function: The Wives of Thomas Pynchon and Paul de Man - Murder Case Man's 'Threat' to Shoot Teddy Bears: Intention in Literary Theory - Well and Truly Fact: Postmodernism and History - About Value - PART 2 - Thanks for the Theory - Alterity: Martin Buber's 'I-Thou' in Literature and the Arts - Impossibility Fiction? If Only... -Despair, Enchantment, Prayer: A Conclusion...