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title	:	The Fiction of William Gass : The Consolation of Language Crosscurrents/modern Critiques. Third Series
author	:	Saltzman, Arthur M.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0809312085
print isbn13	:	9780809312085
ebook isbn13	:	9780585186474
language	:	English
subject	Gass, William H.,--1924- --Criticism and interpretation, Experimental fiction, American--History and criticism.
publication date	:	1986
lcc	:	PS3557.A845Z87 1986eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	Gass, William H.,--1924- --Criticism and interpretation, Experimental fiction, American--History and criticism.

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Crosscurrents Modern Critiques Third Series Jerome Klinkowitz, General Editor Also in this series: Literary Subversions, by Jerome Klinkowitz In Form: Digressions on the Act of Fiction, by Ronald Sukenick Critical Angles: European Responses to Contemporary American Literature, edited by Marc Chnetier The Theater of the American 1960s, by Zoltn Szilassy

Page iii The Fiction of William Gass The Consolation of Language Arthur M. Saltzman Southern Illinois University Press CARBONDALE AND EDWARDSVILLE

Page iv Copyright 1986 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Edited by Timothy S. Burns Designed by Bob Nance Production supervised by Kathleen Giencke Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Saltzman, Arthur. The fiction of William Gass. (Crosscurrents/modern critiques. Third series) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Gass, William H., 1924- Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. PS3557.A845Z87 1985 813'.54 84-27714 ISBN 0-8093-1208-5 89 88 87 86 4 3 2 1

Page v Dedicated to Marla and my parents and to WHGa fan's notes

Page vii Contents Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques/Third Series Jerome Klinkowitz ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1. Introduction: Wording a World 1 2. Omensetter's Luck: The Fall into Language 25 3. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: Eyes Driven Back In 57 4. Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife: The Flesh Made Word 102 5. The Tunnel: Recent Excavations 116 6. The Aesthetic of Doubt in Recent Fiction 135 7. An Interview with William Gass 153 Notes 175 Index 189

Page ix Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques/Third Series In the early 1960s, when the Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques series was developed by Harry T. Moore, the contemporary period was still a controversial one for scholarship. Even today the elusive sense of the present dares critics to rise above mere impressionism and to approach their subject with the same rigors of discipline expected in more traditional areas of study. As the first two series of Crosscurrents books demonstrated, critiquing contemporary culture often means that the writer must be historian, philosopher, sociologist, and bibliographer as well as literary critic, for in many cases these essential preliminary tasks are yet undone. To the challenges that faced the initial Crosscurrents project have been added those unique to the past two decades: the disruption of conventional techniques by the great surge in innovative writing in the American 1960s just when social and political conditions were being radically transformed, the new worldwide interest in the Magic Realism of South American novelists, the startling experiments of textual and aural poetry from Europe, the emergence of Third World au-

Page x thors, the rising cause of feminism in life and literature, and, most dramatically, the introduction of Continental theory into the previously staid world of Anglo-American literary scholarship. These transformations demand that many traditional treatments be rethought, and part of the new responsibility for Crosscurrents will be to provide such studies. Contributions to Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques/Third Series will be distinguished by their fresh approaches to established topics and by their opening up of new territories for discourse. When a single author is studied, we hope to present the first book on his or her work, or to explore a previously untreated aspect based on new research. Writers who have been critiqued well elsewhere will be studied in comparison with lesser-known figures, sometimes from other cultures, in an effort to broaden our base of understanding. Critical and theoretical works by leading novelists, poets, and dramatists will have a home in Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques/Third Series, as will sampler-introductions to the best in new Americanist criticism written abroad.

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