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Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781501304941
Content:
"This introduction offers a clear discussion of all five of Gaddis's novels, providing essential biographical information, two chapters each on his most significant novels, The Recognitions and J R, and a chapter each devoted to his later three novels. A concluding chapter locates his place in American literature and notes his influence on younger writers. Each chapter focuses on the main themes of each novel and discusses the literary techniques Gaddis deployed to dramatize those themes. Since Gaddis is an erudite, allusive novelist, Moore clarifies his references and explains how they enhance his themes"--
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"In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work. This revised and expanded ed. includes new chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the posthumous novella Agape Agape, along with updated introductory and concluding chapters. This introduction offers a clear discussion of all five of Gaddis's novels, providing essential biographical information, two chapters each on his most significant novels, The Recognitions and J R, and a chapter each devoted to his later three novels. A concluding chapter locates his place in American literature and notes his influence on younger writers. Each chapter focuses on the main themes of each novel and discusses the literary techniques Gaddis deployed to dramatize those themes. Since Gaddis is an erudite, allusive novelist, Moore clarifies his references and explains how they enhance his themes."--
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Machine generated contents note: -- Preface to the Expanded EditionPreface to the 1989 Edition1. A Vision of Order2. The Recognitions: Magic, Myth, and Metaphor3. The Recognitions: The Self Who Can Do More4. J R: What America Is All About5. J R: Empedocles on Valhalla6. Carpenter's Gothic; or, The Ambiguities7. A Frolic of His Own: Ideas of Order8. Agape Agape: The Self Who Cannot Do MoreBibliographyIndex.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781628926453
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781628926446
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ISBN 9781628926477
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Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Gaddis, William 1922-1998
DOI:
10.5040/9781501304941
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