1. Introduction
2. The literary and the ethical: difference as definition - Charles Altieri
3. Singular events: literature, invention, and performance - Derek Attridge
4. The post-literary condition: Sartre, Camus and the question(s) of literature - David Carroll
5. Literary force, institutional values - Timothy Clark
6. The literary as activity in postmodernity - Marianne DeKoven
7. The question concerning literature - Thomas Dochertty
8. Literature as regime (meditiations on an emergence) - John Frow
9. 'Fiction' and the experience of the other - Peggy Kamuf
10. Constructing Xanadu: towards a poetics of hypertext fiction - Adrian Page
11. Pretend what youlike: literature under construction - Bruce Robbins
12. Literature - repeat nothing - Robert Smith