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Author Klinkowitz, Jerome.

Title Literary subversions : new American fiction and the practice of criticism / Jerome Klinkowitz.

Publication Info. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1985]
©1985

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PS379 .K5525 1985    Available  ---
Description xlii, 203 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series
Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series.
Bibliography Bibliography: page xlii.
Contents Pretext: Criticism and fiction in an age of subversions -- 1. Essay as polemic: John Barth: fiction in an age of criticism -- Ishmael Reed's multicultural aesthetic -- John Irving's world according to fiction -- 2. Essay as lyric: John Updike's America -- Grace Paley: the sociology of metafiction -- Robley Wilson's experimental realism -- 3. Essay as meditation: John Gardner's Grendel -- Thomas McGuane: the novel of manners -- Radicalized -- Richard Yates: the power of sadness -- 4. Essay as witness: Betrayed by Jerzy Kosinski -- At home with Dan Wakefield -- Postcards from Tom Glynn -- Subtext: Critic par lui-même.
Form Also issued online.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Experimental fiction, American.
Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Criticism.
United States.
History.
Other Form: Online version: Klinkowitz, Jerome. Literary subversions. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1985 (OCoLC)564269288
ISBN 0809312093
9780809312092