In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

academia, 15, 34, 65, 94–95, 178, 179, 183, 203–4 addiction, 100, 103–4, 106–9, 135–39, 144–46, 201–2; narratives of, 97–99, 110–12 affect, 2, 13–14, 37–38, 100–2, 135, 140– 41, 157, 171–72, 179, 181, 183–84, 195, 196–98, 201–7 Afghanistan, 191 Al-Qaeda, 171 Alcoholics Anonymous, 97–98, 206; in Infinite Jest, 106–9, 112–15 Amazon, 9, 13, 16, 176–77; customer reviews of Infinite Jest, 110; customer reviews of The Kite Runner, 175–97, 203–4; customer reviews of The Pilot ’s Wife, 160 Arendt, Hannah, 32–34 Armstrong, Nancy, 38 autobiography, 141 Barnes, Elizabeth, 181 Berlant, Lauren, 36, 188 Bhabha, Homi, 57 blackness, 56, 75–76 book clubs, 69, 90, 179, 187, 202 BookScan, 9 Booth, Wayne, 125 Botton, Alain de, 11 Bradshaw, John: Homecoming, 20–24 Broken Moon Press, 88 Brooks, Peter, 111 Bruni, Frank, 121 Burke, Kenneth, 14, 28 Bush Administration, 40–41, 152, 170– 72, 191–93 Cheah, Pheng, 83 Cheever, John, 15, 73; “The Worm in the Apple,” 6–8 chick lit, 28 Christianity, 18 Cioffi, Frank, 110 Cohen, Richard, 129 cold war, 19–20, 27, 171, 201 comparative literature, 178 confessional culture, 35, 78–79, 81, 85, 90, 95, 128, 130–31, 168 Cooper, Anderson, 142 cosmopolitanism, 83, 85 cultural capital, 8, 15, 47 cultural studies, 11–12 Damrosch, David, 177–79, 183 Douglas, Ann, 13 feminism, 165; consciousness-raising novels, 27–28; consciousness-raising practices, 141 Fiedler, Leslie, 3–8, 10, 11, 13 Fisher, Philip, 13 free indirect discourse, 26, 30, 51, 115, 151–54, 168 French, Marilyn, 28 I n d e x 256 : index Freud, Sigmund, 18–19, 21, 28 Frey, James: A Million Little Pieces, 2–3, 40, 126, 127–49, 200; attitude toward drug addiction, 137–39, 144– 45; bodily pain, 131–32; controversy, 127–29, 142–43; individual agency, 145–47; masculinity, 139–40; minimalist style, 133–34; notion of truth, 134–35, 141–42 Friedan, Betty, 27 Frye, Northrop: “Literature as Therapy ,” 29 Gal, Susan, 33 Garreau, Joel, 73 gender roles, 77, 139, 141, 165 Gilmore, Leigh, 129, 141 Guillory, John, 15, 48 Habermas, Jürgen, 32–36 HarperCollins, 87–88 Harpo Productions, 45, 148 Heffernan, Virginia, 149 Herman, Ellen, 19 highbrow culture, 3, 4, 7, 30, 39, 48, 65, 112, 126, 166 Holland, Norman: The Dynamics of Literary Response, 29–30 Hosseini, Khaled: cultural specificity of fiction, 179, 182, 185–87; depiction of the Taliban, 190–91; humanism, 188–89, 192; The Kite Runner, 40–41, 172, 175–98, 201, 203, 206, 207; orientalism , 182; politics, 191–96; sadomasochism , 184–85; treatment of universal themes, 179–81 Howe, Irving, 7 identification, 1, 14, 31, 36, 52–54, 68, 72, 89, 98, 107–8, 113–14, 119–20, 122– 23, 128, 132, 141, 143, 147, 151, 155, 161, 169–70, 178–79, 182–83, 184–88, 197 Illouz, Eva, 148–49 inner child, 21–23, 29, 101–2, 123 interiority, 18, 25, 37, 123, 152, 159–60, 199 irony: and addiction, 108; in popular culture, 40, 103, 105 Jameson, Fredric, 41, 158 Joyce, James, 152–54 Jurca, Catherine, 31 Kenner, Hugh, 153 King, Gayle, 47–48, 51, 65 Larry King Live, 128, 143–44 Larson, Magali Sarfatti, 77 Lasch, Christopher, 41, 81, 199–200 Lears, T. J. Jackson, 19 left, 1–2, 12, 17, 27, 32, 34, 161, 206 literary fiction, 2, 9–10, 11, 12, 14–16, 28–30, 45, 46–48, 66, 68, 151, 166– 67, 179 Little, Brown, 120–21 Long, Elizabeth, 14–15 lowbrow culture, 2, 4, 166 Lukács, Georg, 31 Lutz, Tom, 83 Macdonald, Dwight, 3–8, 10, 11, 13, 15 Max, D. T., 44, 52 McGee, Micki, 200 McHale, Brian, 124–25 memoir genre, 128–29, 131, 142–43, 147–48 Mencken, H. L., 92 middle class, 12–13, 20, 22, 136–37, 166, 199; apathy, 100–3; authenticity, 136–37, 139, 142, 146–47; norms, 160 index : 257 middlebrow culture, 1–4, 8, 10, 11, 14– 16, 41, 47–48, 68–69, 106, 205 Miller, Nancy K., 141 Mills, C. Wright, 136 Mobilio, Albert, 166 modernism, 13, 26–27, 66, 119, 124, 151, 153, 156 Moretti, Franco, 26, 31 Morrison, Toni: interpretive difficulties , 51–52, 66; Paradise, 39, 43–70, 72, 176, 204–5; Playing in the Dark, 56; racial politics, 55–57; re­ lation to middlebrow culture, 52–54, 60, 64– 65, 67–69; utopian politics, 44–45, 49, 51, 61–62, 65...

Share