Using the idea of 'parability,'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ram?n Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Pynchon, Eco, Forch?, Merrill, Weiner, Plath, Ashbery, and Eigner.Intuitions In: Methodologies Space, Spectrality, and Parability Conspiracy of Commodities: Encyclopedic Narrative and Crowdedness From Spectacle to Fascicle: Walter Benjamin, Carolyn Forch?, and Messianic History Spectral Conversions: James Merrill and Hannah Weiner Sylvia Plath and Electracy: Spectral Poetics With(out) Specters The Wireless Spaces of Ashbery and Eigner Louis Zukofsky and Quantum Criticism (A/One Conclusion)Alan Ram?n Clinton is a lecturer in the Department of English at the Santa Clara University.