Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox.
Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980; paperback edition with new preface: London and New York: Methuen, 1984.
Formalism and the Freudian Aesthetic: The Example of Charles Mauron.
London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms.
London and New York: Methuen, 1985. Reprinted/republished with new introduction by University of Illinois Press, 2001.
A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction.
London and New York: Routledge, 1988.
The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian
Fiction. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988.
The Politics of Postmodernism. London and New York: Routledge,
New Accents, 1989. Republished with new epilogue and updated bibliography by Routledge, May 2002.
Splitting Images: Contemporary Canadian Ironies. Toronto: Oxford
University Press, 1991.
Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
A Theory of Adaptation. London and New York: Routledge, 2006; 2nd revised ed. 2013.
Collaborative Interdisciplinary work with
Michael Hutcheon
Opera: Desire, Disease, Death. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996; paperback reissue, spring 1999.
Bodily Charm: Living Opera. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
Opera: The Art of Dying. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Books & Journal Special Issues:
(edited and co-edited)
Rethinking Literary History: A Dialogue on Theory. Co-edited with Mario J. Valdés. New York: Oxford UP, 2002.
Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fiction and Interviews. Co-edited with M. Richmond. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Double-Talking: Essays on Verbal and Visual Ironies in Contemporary Canadian Art and Literature. Toronto: ECW Press, 1992.
A Postmodern Reader. Co-edited with Joseph Natoli. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
The Discovery / Invention of Knowledge. Co-edited with J.E. Chamberlin. Special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly 61.4 (Summer 1992).
Likely Stories: A Postmodern Sampler. Co-edited with George Bowering. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1992.
Cultural Studies in Canada. Co-edited with Faye Pickrem and Stephen Pender. Special Issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly 64.4 (Fall 1995).
Cultural Studies: Disciplinarity and Divergence. Co-edited with Faye Pickrem. Special Issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly 65.2 (Spring 1996).
PMLA: Millennium Issue, 115.7 (2000).
Expanding Interdisciplinarity Through Opera. Co-edited with Caryl Clark. Special Issue of University of Toronto Quarterly 72.4 (2003).
Expanding Interdisciplinarity Through Opera. Co-edited with Caryl Clark. Special Issue of University of Toronto Quarterly 74.2 (2005).
Expanding Interdisciplinarity Through Opera. Co-edited with Caryl Clark. Special Issue of University of Toronto Quarterly, 75.3 (2006).
Special Issue of
The Opera Quarterly, co-edited by Linda and Michael Hutcheon and Caryl Clark on The Canadian Opera Company Ring Cycle. 23.2-3 (2007). Edited articles plus wrote "Introduction" 145-150
