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Author Johnston, John

Title Carnival of Repetition : Gaddis's "The Recognitions" and Postmodern Theory / John Johnston
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©1990

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Description 1 online resource
Series Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Repetition and Difference -- Chapter 2. Masquerades and Dispersions -- Chapter 3. Subject and System -- Chapter 4. The Becoming-Simulacrum of the Novel -- Chapter 5. Toward Postmodern Fiction -- Notes -- Index
Summary Although published many decades ago, William Gaddis's The Recognitions is only now beginning to receive the critical attention it deserves. Carnival of Repetition, the first full-length study of the novel, is a sophisticated analysis that places it in a new literary and cultural context
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject Gaddis, William, 1922-1998. Recognitions
Gaddis, William, 1922-1998 -- Technique
SUBJECT Gaddis, William, 1922-1998 fast
Recognitions (Gaddis, William) fast
Subject Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
Repetition (Rhetoric)
Fiction -- Technique.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Fiction -- Technique
Postmodernism (Literature)
Repetition (Rhetoric)
Technique
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781512806427
1512806420