本书是上海交通大学985**教材之一。共分两册，即“现代主义卷”和“后现代主义卷”。后现代主义卷选有22位20世纪后现代主义代表作家的代表作品或其节选，每位作家及其作品为一个章节，作为一个章节，内容包括：作家生平与创作介绍；其主要作品名称、创作主题和技巧；理解作品须通晓的术语解释；选文以及就选文提出问题所作的评点。本书可作为高校英语专业高年级学生和硕士研究生的英美文学爱好者作进修读物。本书为上海交通大学外语学院英美文学专业硕士、博士研究生入学考试的指定参考用书。

Introduction:About Postmcdernism and Volume Ⅱ
Kingsiey Amis
from Lucky jim
Jack Kerouac
from On the Road
Allen Ginsberg
Howl
Williams S. Burroughs
from Naked Lunch(Beadley the Buyer)
Samuel Beckett
from Waiting for Godot
Joseph Heller
from Catch-22
Thomas Pynchon
from The Crying of Lot 49
Kurt Vonnegut
from Slaughterhouse-Five
B.S.Johnson
Broad Thoughts from a Home
Flann O'Brien
from At Swim-Two-Birds
Donald barthelme
At the End of the Mechanical Age
John Fowles
from The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Barth
Lost in the Funhouse
William H.Gass
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Raymond Federman
Raymond Federman
Robert Coover
The Babysitter
Ronald Sukenick
The Birds
Sylvia Plath
Daddy
Metaphors
Anne Sexton
Cinderella
Ursula Le Quin
from The Left Hand of Darkness
Doris Lessing
A Woman on a Roof
Toni Morrison
from The Beloved
Index of Literary Terms
References