Joe Bray is Senior Lecturer in Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. Alison Gibbons is Lecturer in Stylistics, Language and Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester.

List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Joe Bray and Alison GibbonsI. House of Leaves1. This is not for you: Alison Gibbons2. Katabasis in Danielewski's House of Leaves and two other recent American novels: Finn Fordham3. Houses of leaves, cinema and the new affordances of old media: Paul McCormick4. This haunted house: Intertextuality and interpretation in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000) and Poe's Haunted (2000): Mel Evans5. Trickster authors and tricky readers on the MZD forums: Bronwen ThomasII. The Fifty Year Sword6. Reading the graphic surface of Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword: Glyn WhiteIII. Only Revolutions7. Only evolutions: Joyce and Danielewski's works in progress: Dirk Van Hulle8. Only Revolutions, or, the most typical poem in world literature: Brian McHale9. Mapping time, charting data: the spatial aesthetic of Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions: N. Katherine Hayles10. Print interface to time: Only Revolutions at the crossroads of narrative and history: Mark B. N. Hansen11. Only Revolutions and the drug of rereading: Joe BrayContributorsIndex

This is the first major study of Mark Z. Danielewski, an emerging, innovative American novelist and a key figure in contemporary literature. It situates his three novels to date in their literary and cultural context, in the process demonstrating why he is such an important and ground-breaking writer.