William Gaddis, "the last of something"
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by Crystal Alberts, Christopher Leise and Birger Vanwesenbeeck.
Contributors: Alberts, Crystal.; Leise, Christopher, 1978-; Vanwesenbeeck, Birger.
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786443093
Subjects: Gaddis, William, -- 1922-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "This collection of essays explores the interrelation between Gaddis's writing and the culture that helped to engender it. The essays cover such topics as technique, genre, religion, art, economics, colonialism and the role played by Gaddis's own travels through Europe and North Africa"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mapping William Gaddis: the man, the recognitions and his time / Crystal Alberts; title: The kvetch, the rant, and the bitch / William H. Gass; title: The power of babel: art, entropy, and aporia in the novels / Christopher Leise; title: Trying to make negative things do the work of positive ones: Gaddis and apophaticism / Christopher J. Knight; title: Failing criticism: the recognitions / Joseph Conway; title: Agape agape: the last Christian novel(s) / Birger Vanwesenbeeck; title: "A disciplined nostalgia": Gaddis and the modern art object / Lisa Siraganian; title: The recognitions and carpenter's gothic: Gaddis's anti-Pauline novels / John Soutter; title: This little prodigy went to market: the education of J R / Tim Conley; title: Fields ripe for harvest: Carpenter's gothic, Africa, and avatars of biopolitical control / Mathieu Duplay; title: After Gaddis: data storage and the novel / Stephen J. Burn.