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Author Klinkowitz, Jerome.

Title Literary subversions : new American fiction and the practice of criticism / Jerome Klinkowitz
Published Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1985

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Description 1 online resource (xlii, 203 pages)
Series Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series
Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page xlii)
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Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism
Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Literature, Experimental -- United States -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Literature, Experimental
American fiction
Criticism
Experimental fiction, American
Literaturkritik
Roman
United States
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 058518707X
9780585187075