| Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System Revised Edition Contributor(s): Tabbi, Joseph (Editor), Shavers, Rone (Editor), Wutz, Michael (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0817354069 ISBN-13: 9780817354060 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2006020793 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 7.9" W x 8.88" (1.06 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis' collected nonfiction, his final novel, and Jonathan Franzen's lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis' legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, critic Hal Foster suggested a reason for disparate responses to Gaddis' reputation: Gaddis' unique hybridity, his ability to write in the gap between two dispensations, between science and literature, theory and narrative, and different orders of linguistic imagination. Gaddis (1922-1998) is often cited as the link between literary modernism and postmodernism in the United States. His novels - The Recognitions, JR, Carpenter's Gothic, and A Frolic of His Own - are notable in the ways that they often restrict themselves to the language and communication systems of the worlds he portrays. |