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From: New York Times Book Review[(review date 1 November 1998) In the following review, Wood offers positive evaluation of Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas, though notes contradictions and shortcomings in the work.] William Gass is the...
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From: Los Angeles Times Book Review[(review date 19 March 1995) In the following review, Silverblatt offers high praise for The Tunnel.] The Tunnel is the most beautiful, most complex, most disturbing novel to be published in my lifetime. It took nearly...
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From: New York Times Book Review[(review date 26 February 1995) In the following review, Kelly provides summary analysis of The Tunnel, which he describes as "an infuriating and offensive masterpiece."] If you want to go down into the self, you'd...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[Kermode is an English literary critic who has written and edited a variety of works, including studies of such writers as William Shakespeare, John Donne, D. H. Lawrence, and Wallace Stevens. Among his works of critical...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date Spring 1997) In the following review, O'Brien offers praise for Finding a Form.] Gass is a writer who has always believed in public discourse, that the act of the critic and scholar is to engage as wide...
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From: Silverless Mirrors: Book, Self, and Postmodern American Fiction, Tallahassee, FL[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Caramello examines Gass's postmodern ambivalence toward authority, textuality, and the deconstruction of reality in Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife.] If dreams are made of...
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From: Antioch Review[(review date Summer 1995) In the following review, Percesepe provides a summary of The Tunnel and comments on its critical controversy.] Having completed his magnum opus, Guilt & Innocence in Hitler's Germany, William...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date Spring 1995) In the following review, Moore offers high praise for The Tunnel.] I'm grateful that I lived long enough to see this. For nearly thirty years Gass has been publishing sections of The Tunnel...
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From: Washington Post Book World[(review date 12 March 1995) In the following review, Dirda offers positive assessment of The Tunnel.] Long awaited. Eagerly anticipated. Thirty years in the making. Such siren calls have sounded before--most recently...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)William H. Gass, a philosopher and literary critic as well as a fiction writer, derives from and is closely allied to the symbolistes, Gertrude Stein, Ortega y Gasset, John Crowe Ransom and the New Critics generally,...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(essay date Fall 1991) In the following essay, Stevick examines the significance of Gass's comments on his own work in light of his problematic insistence on the nonreferentiality of his texts. Stevick draws attention...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date Fall 1998) In the following review, Saltzman offers positive assessment of Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas.] William Gass regularly demonstrates how the artist's devotion is best measured by his...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(essay date Fall 1991) In the following essay, Dettmar provides analysis of initiation themes, postmodern literary techniques, and psychoanalytic associations in Gass's story"The Pedersen Kid." Dettmar concludes, "Jorge...
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From: Artforum[(review date February 1997) In the following review, Lewis comments on Gass's literary aesthetic and offers positive evaluation of Finding a Form.] I happened to be passing through St. Louis one summer weekend in...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(review date Winter 1979-1980) In the following favorable review of The World Within the Word, Schneider discusses Gass's critical views on literature.] Following close on the heels of John Gardner's On Moral Fiction,...
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From: The New York TimesBack in 1971, in his first collection of essays, Fiction and the Figures of Life, the philosopher-novelist William H. Gass laid down the law that “the esthetic aim of any fiction is the creation of a verbal world, or a...
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From: Understanding William H. Gass[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Hix summarizes the author’s approach to short stories: “Gass wants the story to be realistic, but not about the place. He wants it to be realistic about the mind of its speaker,...
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From: Studies in American Indian Literatures[(essay date summer 2010) In the following essay, Salaita examines Alexie's presentation of Muslim and Arab characters in two novels written in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks--Flight and Ten Little...
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From: The Nation[(review date 20 March 1995) In the following review, Leonard offers favorable evaluation of The Tunnel, concluding that is "a splendid, daunting, loathsome novel."] Your wife is fat. Your penis is tiny. Your children...
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From: The New Republic[Alter, an American literary critic, has written several studies of the novel as a genre as well as works on individual authors and reflections on Jewish writing. His works include Rogues's Progress: Studies in the...