Introduction: Harold Bloom.
Garp: death in the family / Greil Marcus.
Domesticated madness / Benjamin DeMott.
Structure in the worlds of John Irving / Michael Priestly.
Reservations / Robert Towers. - Why is John Irving so popular? / Joseph Epstein.
The good wrestler / Gabriel Miller.
John Irving's aesthetics of accessibility / Jane Bowers Hill.
The postmodern novel: the example of John Irving's "The world according to Garp" / Raymond J. Wilson, III.
The family romances of John Irving / Debra Shostak.
Hero worship and hermeneutic dialects: John Irving's "A prayer for Owen Meany" / Philip Page.
Saints, sinners and the Dickensian novel: the ethics of storytelling in John Irving's "The cider house rules" / Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack.
