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The fiction of William Gass: the consolation of language

By Arthur Michael Saltzman

Book information

Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Year
1986
ISBN
0809312085, 9780809312085
LCC
PS3557.A845 Z87 1986
Google Books ID
jbFaAAAAMAAJ
Open Library ID
OL2864716M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
368 kB (377089 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
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Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The first comprehensive study of the works of William Gass addresses the ex­tensive correlation between the theoreti­cal and fictional works and places Gass at the forefront of contemporary post-realism. Saltzman argues that contrary to charges of moral, artistic, or even politi­cal turpitude, the innovative fiction of William Gass represents a conscientious effort to contend with indeterminacy through art. In the fiction of Gass and other contemporary writers, the world of the text is a distinct and competitive ad­dition to reality, not a mere description of reality. Saltzman examines Gass’s major fic­tional works, Omensetter’s Luck and Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife, the col­lected stories of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, the extensive novel-in-progress The Tunnel, as well as the essay collections, Fiction and the Figures of Life and The World Within the Word.

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