- A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (1988)
- The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction (1988)
- Politics of Postmodernism (1989)
- Splitting Images: Contemporary Canadian Ironies (1991)
- The Politics of Irony (1994)
- Second Skin (2002)
- A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms (2002)
- After Poetics: Theory as Literary Action (2002)
- Life after Theory (2004)
- The Canadian Postmodern (2004)
- The Hyperreal Novel (2004)
- Theory's Empire: An Intellectual History of Literary Theory (2005)
- The Uses of Fiction (2007)
- Literature, Film, Fascism (2011)
- Rethinking Canadian Literature (2015)
**Anthologies edited
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- Other Solitudes: Canadian Multicultural Fictions (1977)
- Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox (1980)
- Modern Literary Theory: A Reader (1983)
- The Textualities of Canadian Literature (1991)
- Relatable Fictions? Canada and the United States in Narrative Perspective (1992)
- Tessera: A Journal of Translation Theory and Practice (1995–)
- Postcolonialism and Modernity (2004)