03513nam 2200637 a 450 991096706030332120200520144314.00-8173-8152-X(CKB)1000000000483505(EBL)438144(OCoLC)463172747(SSID)ssj0000217782(PQKBManifestationID)11190280(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000217782(PQKBWorkID)10212224(PQKB)11769997(MdBmJHUP)muse8665(Au-PeEL)EBL438144(CaPaEBR)ebr10218352(MiAaPQ)EBC438144(EXLCZ)99100000000048350520060705d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPaper empire William Gaddis and the world system /edited by Joseph Tabbi and Rone Shavers ; introduction by Joseph Tabbi1st ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20071 online resource (303 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-5406-9 0-8173-1548-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-276) and index.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 Postmodernity9. 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; IndexCelebrates 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 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,-betweLiterature and technologyUnited StatesGlobalization in literatureMass media in literatureCapitalism in literatureLiterature and technologyGlobalization in literature.Mass media in literature.Capitalism in literature.813/.54Tabbi Joseph1960-1833652Shavers Rone1970-1833653MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967060303321Paper empire4408536UNINA