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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Klinkowitz, Jerome. Literary subversions. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1985 (OCoLC)564269288 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jerome Klinkowitz |
| ISBN: | 0809312093 9780809312092 |
| OCLC Number: | 11725825 |
| Description: | xlii, 203 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Pretext: Criticism and fiction in an age of subversions -- 1. The essay as polemic: John Barth: fiction in an age of criticism -- Ishmael Reed's multicultural aesthetic -- John Irving's world according to fiction -- 2. The essay as lyric: John Updike's America -- Grace Paley: the sociology of metafiction -- Robley Wilson's experimental realism -- 3. The essay as meditation: John Gardner's Grendel -- Thomas McGuane: the novel of manners -- Radicalized -- Richard Yates: the power of sadness -- 4. The essay as witness: Betrayed by Jerzy Kosinski -- At home with Dan Wakefield -- Postcards from Tom Glynn -- Subtext: The critic par lui-même. |
| Series Title: | Crosscurrents/modern critiques., Third series. |
| Responsibility: | Jerome Klinkowitz. |
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