num_pages: 289
description: From the time "J R won the National Book Award in 1976, Gaddis has been recognized as one of the foremost voices in post-war fiction. CONTENTS Introduction Harold BloomTo Soar in Atonement: Art as Expiation in Gaddis’s The Recognitions by Joseph S. Salemi“For a Very Small Audience”: The Fiction of William Gaddis bySusan Strehle KlemtnerNo More Sea Changes: Hawkes, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Barth byJohn Z. Guzlowski“il miglior fabbro”: Gaddis’ Debt to T.S. Eliot by Miriam FuchsLove and Strife in William Gaddis’ JR Stephen by H. MatanleIronic Allusiveness and Satire in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions by Elaine B. SaferCarpenter’s Gothic; or, The Ambiguities by Steven MooreToward Postmodern Fiction by John JohnstonAt Home in Babel by Jonathan RabanA Frolic of His Own: Whose Law? Whose Justice? by Christopher J. KnightThe Importance of Being Negligible by Peter WolfeChronology Contributors Bibliography AcknowledgmentsIndex
language: English
title: William Gaddis
titlecomplete: William Gaddis (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
ratings_count: 13
series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views
publisher: Chelsea House Pub