Fending off the object: criticism, postcriticism, and the Joycean/ Eloise Knowlton -- Hysteria, dreams, and modernity: a reading of the origins of psychoanalysis in Freud's early corpus / Susan Stanford Friedman -- T. S. Eliot's new critical footnotes to modernism / Michael Edward Kaufmann -- The invention of postmodernism: a critical fable / Morton P. Levitt -- Modernism and the end of beauty / Calvin Bedient -- The ethics of abstraction / Anthony J. Cascardi -- "Entering the modern composition": Gertrude Stein and the patterns of modernism / Jonathan Levin -- Modernism/mass culture/postmodernism: the case of Gertrude Stein / Ellen E. Berry -- A horse is being beaten: modernism and popular fiction / David Trotter -- Postmodernism in The Waste Land: women, mass culture, and others / Gregory S. Jay -- Conrad's "fault" / Tom Cohen -- "Working in accord with obstacles": a postmodern perspective on Joyce's "mythical method" / Kevin J. H. Dettmar -- Virginia Woolf and postmodernism: returning to the lighthouse / Pamela L. Caughie -- (En)gendering modernism: Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes / Suzette A. Henke --