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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v38.i19.records.utf8:10894099:2251
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 02251cam a2200301 a 4500
001 2009034520
003 DLC
005 20100506114852.0
008 090820s2010 ncu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009034520
020 $a9780786443093 (softcover : alk. paper)
020 $a078644309X (softcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn368031958
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDXCP$dBTCTA$dC#P$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS3557.A28$bZ95 2010
082 00 $a813/.54$222
245 00 $aWilliam Gaddis, "the last of something" :$bcritical essays /$cedited by Crystal Alberts, Christopher Leise and Birger Vanwesenbeeck.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co.,$cc2010.
300 $avii, 210 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMapping William Gaddis: the man, The recognitions and his time / Crystal Alberts -- The kvetch, the rant, and the bitch / William H. Gass -- The power of Babel: art, entropy, and aporia in the novels / Christopher Leise -- Trying to make negative things do the work of positive ones: Gaddis and apophaticism / Christopher J. Knight -- Failing criticism: The recognitions / Joseph Conway -- Agapē agape: the last Christian novel(s) / Birger Vanwesenbeeck -- "A disciplined nostalgia": Gaddis and the modern art object / Lisa Siraganian -- The recognitions and Carpenter's gothic: Gaddis's anti-Pauline novels / John Soutter -- This little prodigy went to market: the education of JR / Tim Conley -- Fields ripe for harvest: Carpenter's gothic, Africa, and avatars of biopolitical control / Mathieu Duplay -- After Gaddis: data storage and the novel / Stephen J. Burn.
520 $a"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.
600 10 $aGaddis, William,$d1922-1998$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
700 1 $aAlberts, Crystal.
700 1 $aLeise, Christopher,$d1978-
700 1 $aVanwesenbeeck, Birger.