Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-317) and index.

Composition, sources, and backgrounds -- The composition, revision, publication, and reception of Death in the afternoon / Robert W. Trogdon -- "Devout again by cynicism" : Lord Byron and Don Juan in Death in the afternoon / Lisa Tyler -- "I like you less and less" : the Stein subtext in Death in the afternoon / Linda Wagner-Martin -- Subject and author : the literary backgrounds of Death in the afternoon / Miriam B. Mandel -- Reading texts, paratexts, and absence -- "The real thing"? : representing the bullfight and Spain in Death in the afternoon / Peter Messent -- "Very sad but very fine" : Death in the afternoon's imagist interpretation of the Spanish bullfight-text / Beatriz Penas Ibáñez -- "Far from simple" : the published photographs in Death in the afternoon / Anthony Brand -- Deleted "flashes" : the unpublished photographs of Death in the afternoon / Anthony Brand -- "Qué tal, hombre, qué tal?" : how paratexts narrow the gap between reader and text in Death in the afternoon / Nancy Bredendick -- On authorship and art -- "Prejudiced through experience" : Death in the afternoon and the problem of authorship / Hilary K. Justice -- "The sequence of motion and fact" : cubist collage and filmic montage in Death in the afternoon / Amy Vondrak -- And what came after -- The legacy of Death in the afternoon : Norman Mailer and Barnaby Conrad / Kenneth Kinnamon.