The Performing Self : Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life

Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments I 1. A Literature of Law and Order 2. The Politics of Self-Parody 3. The Literature of Waste: Eliot, Joyce, and Others II 4. What Is English Studies, and If You Know What That Is, What Is English Literature? 5. The Performing Self 6. Learning from the Beatles III 7. The War Against the Young: Its Beginnings 8. Rock of Ages 9. Escape to the Future