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UNINA9910967060303321 |
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Titolo |
Paper empire : William Gaddis and the world system / / edited by Joseph Tabbi and Rone Shavers ; introduction by Joseph Tabbi |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2007 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (303 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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TabbiJoseph <1960-> |
ShaversRone <1970-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature and technology - United States |
Globalization in literature |
Mass media in literature |
Capitalism in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-276) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; PART I: AESTHETICS; 1. An Interview with William Gaddis, circa 1980; 2. In the Diaspora of Words: Gaddis, Kierkegaard, and the Art of Recognition(s); 3. The Collapse of Everything: William Gaddis and the Encyclopedic Novel; 4. Gaddis Dialogue Questioned; PART II: SYSTEMS; 5. The Aesthetics of First- and Second-Order Cybernetics in William Gaddis's J R; 6. William Gaddis and the Autopoiesis of American Literature; 7. Cognitive Gothic: Relevance Theory, Iteration, and Style; PART III: CAPITAL; 8. Critical Mimesis: J R's Transition to Postmodernity |
9. Cognitive Map, Aesthetic Object, or National Allegory? Carpenter's Gothic 10. The End of Agape: On the Debates around Gaddis; PART IV: MEDIA; 11. Writing from between the Gaps: Agape Agape and Twentieth-Century Media Culture; 12. Mark the Music: J R and Agape Agape; PART V: BIOGRAPHY; 13. Valuable Dregs: William Gaddis, the Life of an Artist; 14. The Secret History of Agape Agape; Works Cited; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America's most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists. In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis's collected nonfiction |
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and 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's legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, critic Hal Foster suggested a reason for disparate responses to Gaddis's reputation: Gaddis's unique hybridity, his ability to "write in the gap between two dispensations,-betwe |
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