William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest novelists. Less well known is Gaddis's body of excellent critical writings. Here is a wide range of his original essays, some published for the first time. From 'Stop Player. Joke No. 4, ' Gaddis's first national publication and the basis for his projected history of the player piano, to the title essay about missed opportunities in America during the past fifty years, to Old Foes with New Faces, an examination of the relationship between the writer...
William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest noveli...
Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing the technological sublime."
Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsio...
The convergence of twentieth-century narrative and technology is one of the most important developments in current literary study. Roughly a decade after the founding of the Society for Literature and Science, and after the appearance of such influential books as Kathleen Woodward's Culture of Information and William Paulson's Noise of Culture, Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz have edited a landmark volume that seeks to summarize this still-emerging field. Through the essays and the wide-ranging overview provided by the editors' introduction, Reading Matters shows how these theoretical...
The convergence of twentieth-century narrative and technology is one of the most important developments in current literary study. Roughly a decade...
Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists.
In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis s legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, critic Hal Foster suggested a reason for disparate responses to Gaddis s reputation: Gaddis s unique hybridity, his ability to write in the gap between two dispensations, between...
Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists.
William Gaddis (1922-1998) is often cited as the link between literary modernism and postmodernism in the United States. His novels--"The Recognitions," "JR," "Carpenter's Gothic," and "A Frolic of His Own"--are notable in the ways that they often restrict themselves to the language and communication systems of the worlds he portrays. As these essays testify, few American writers have illuminated as poignantly or incisively just how much the systemic forces of capitalism and mass communication have impacted individual lives and identity--imparting global dimensions to private pursuits and...
William Gaddis (1922-1998) is often cited as the link between literary modernism and postmodernism in the United States. His novels--"The Recogniti...
Finalist, 2016 Society for Midland Authors Award for Biography & Memoir During his lifetime, William Gaddis (1922 1998) evaded biographical questions, never read from his work publicly, and didn t allow his photograph to appear on his books. Before his novel J R (1975) won Gaddis the National Book Award and some measure of renown, he had given up the bohemian world of 1950s Greenwich Village for a series of corporate jobs that both paid the bills and provided an inside view of the encroachment of market values into every corner of American culture.
By illustrating the...
Finalist, 2016 Society for Midland Authors Award for Biography & Memoir During his lifetime, William Gaddis (1922 1998) evaded biographical qu...
The digital age has had a profound impact on literary culture, with new technologies opening up opportunities for new forms of literary art from hyperfiction to multi-media poetry and narrative-driven games. Bringing together leading scholars and artists from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is the first authoritative reference handbook to the field.
Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book explores the foundational theories of the field, contemporary artistic practices, debates and controversies surrounding such key concepts as canonicity,...
The digital age has had a profound impact on literary culture, with new technologies opening up opportunities for new forms of literary art from hy...
