Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing

'A significant contribution to the debate about postmodernism.' American Studies

'Spectacular Allegories takes on novels and films of contemporary America as a

"simulatory universe" whose true legibility has all but disappeared under the seductive weight of yet more consumerist sight and sound ... The ambition of the undertaking deserves applause; [it] is a genuine and timely attempt to find new grammar for a new American writing.' TLS