Understanding William H. GassUniv of South Carolina Press, 2002 - 189 Seiten An ambitious novelist made clear and accessible; William H. Gass writes in his essays about the world within the word and the soul inside the sentence, yet readers often find it difficult to get far enough into Gass's words and sentences to find the world or soul they contain. In this guide to the American writer and philosopher's novels, short stories, novellas, and essays, H. L. Hix clarifies the obscurities that have served to limit access to Gass's corpus and explores how the parallels between his fiction and nonfiction illumine their related themes. Hix offers readings of Gass's works, from the early books, Omensetter's Luck and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, to his later The Tunnel and Cartesian Sonata. Hix identifies the continuous presence of psychological, metaphysical, and ethical themes, including the lingering effect on adults of childhood hurts, the results of being trapped in language, and the consequences of hatred. While agreeing with critics who label Gass's novels and stories metafiction, he contends that to stop the exploration there would be to miss a complete appreciation of the novelist. Hix demonstrates instead how Gass's writings both break |
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Inhalt
List of Abbreviations xi | 1 |
Four Characters in Omensetters Luck | 6 |
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country | 30 |
One Theme in Three Essays | 51 |
Willie Masters Lonesome Wife and On Being Blue | 62 |
Twenty Questions on The Tunnel 76 | 165 |
Cartesian Sonata 140 | 171 |
Bibliography | 173 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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