Preface I. Metafictional Implications for Novelistic Reference/Linda Hutcheon II. The Double Bind: Self-Referring Poetry/Anna Whiteside III. Bad References/Gerald Prince IV. Waiting for the Referent: Waiting for Godot? (On Referring in Theatre)/Jean Alter V. Topological Poetics: EluardOs OLa Victoire de GuernicaO/Jean-Jacques Thomas VI. Renaming in Literature: Faces of the Moon/Francoise Meltzer VII. How Playscripts Refer: Some Preliminary Considerations/Michael Issacharoff VIII. Are BaudelaireOs OTableaux ParisiensO about Paris?/Ross Chambers IX. Referential Intertextuality: Pre-Code, Code, and Post-Code/Bruce Morrissette X. Production, Reception, and the Social Context/Patrice Pavis XI. Poland of Nowhere, the Breasts of Tiresias, and Other Incongruities, or: Referential Manipulation in Modern Drama/Wladimir Krysinski XII. The Referential Act/Thomas E. Lewis Conclusion: Theories of Reference/Anna Whiteside Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index of Names