God the artist
Subtitle: American novelists in a post-realist age
By: Jan Gorak.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780252013416
Subjects: West, Nathanael, -- 1903-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Hawkes, John, -- 1925-  -- Criticism and interpretation.; Barth, John, -- 1930-  -- Criticism and interpretation.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; God in literature.; Artists in literature.; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography, p.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Deus artifex: transformation of a topos; title: The art of significant disorder : the fiction of Nathanael West; title: Nathanael West : godly maker in a commercial world; title: The Deus artifex topos since 1945 : everyman his own godly artist; title: John Hawkes's God : the realist Malgre Lui; title: "Something like a war memorial" : John Hawkes's Travesty; title: The nihilist Deus Artifex : the short fiction of John Barth; title: The global Deus artifex : John Barth's The sot-Weed Factor and LETTERS; title: Conclusion