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title	:	Literary Subversions : New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism Crosscurrents/modern Critiques. Third Series
author	:	Klinkowitz, Jerome.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0809312093
print isbn13	:	9780809312092
ebook isbn13	:	9780585187075
language	:	English
subject	American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Experimental fiction, American--History and criticism, Criticism--United States--History--20th century.
publication date	:	1985
lcc	:	PS379.K5525 1985eb
ddc	:	813/.54/09
subject	:	American fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Experimental fiction, American--History and criticism, Criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Page ii Crosscurrents Modern Critiques Third Series Edited by Jerome Klinkowitz In Form: Digressions on the Act of Fiction by Ronald Sukenick

Page iii Literary Subversions New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism Jerome Klinkowitz Southern Illinois University Press CARBONDALE AND EDWARDSVILLE

Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Klinkowitz, Jerome. Literary subversions. (Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series) Includes bibliographies and index. 1. American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Literature, ExperimentalHistory and criticism. 3. CriticismUnited StatesHistory20th century. I. Title. II. Series. PS379.K5525 1985 813'.54'09 85-1887 ISBN 0-8093-1209-3 Copyright 1985 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Edited by Carol Burns Designed by Design for Publishing Jacket design by Quentin Fiore Production supervised by Kathleen Giencke 88 87 86 85 4 3 2 1

Page v For Rob Wilson and The North American Review

Page vi I mean by literature neither a body nor a series of works, nor even a branch of commerce or of teaching, but the complex graph of the traces of a practice, the practice of writing. Hence, it is essentially the text with which I am concernedthe fabric of signifiers which constitute the work. For the text is the very outcropping of speech, and it is within speech that speech must be fought, led astraynot by the message of which it is the instrument, but by the play of words of which it is the theater. Thus I can say without differentiation: literature, writing, or text. The forces of freedom which are in literature depend not on the writer's civil person, nor on his political commitmentfor he is, after all, only a man among othersnor do they even depend on the doctrinal content of his work, but rather on the labor of displacement he brings to bear upon the language.... Because it stages language instead of simply using it, literature feeds knowledge into the machine of infinite reflexivity. Through writing, knowledge ceaselessly reflects on knowledge, in terms of a discourse which is no longer epistemological, but dramatic.... Writing makes knowledge festive. Roland Barthes, Inaugural Lecture, Collge de France (1977)

Page vii CONTENTS Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques/Third Series ix Acknowledgments xi Pretext: Criticism and Fiction in an Age of Subversions xiii I. The Essay as Polemic John Barth: Fiction in an Age of Criticism 3 Ishmael Reed's Multicultural Aesthetic 18 John Irving's World According to Fiction 34 II. The Essay as Lyric John Updike's America 59 Grace Paley: The Sociology of Metafiction 70 Robley Wilson's Experimental Realism 77 III. The Essay as Meditation John Gardner's Grendel 97 Thomas McGuane: The Novel of Manners Radicalized 104 Richard Yates: The Power of Sadness 116 IV. The Essay as Witness Betrayed by Jerzy Kosinski 127 At Home with Dan Wakefield 149 Postcards from Tom Glynn 164 Subtext: The Critic par lui-mme 171

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