David Letzler is an independent scholar. His essays have been published in Contemporary Literature, Studies in the Novel, the Wallace Stevens Journal, and the African American Review.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Information and Attention in the Mega-Novel
1. The Dictionary
2. The Encyclopedia
3. Life-Writing
4. The Menippean Satire
5. Episodic Narrative
6. The Epic and the Allegory
Conclusion: The Fate of the Mega-Novel
Source Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

David Letzler is an independent scholar. His essays have been published in Contemporary Literature, Studies in the Novel, the Wallace Stevens Journal, and the African American Review.