Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- To Soar in Atonement : Art as Expiation in Gaddis's The Recognitions / Joseph S. Salemi -- "For a Very Small Audience" : The Fiction of William Gaddis / Susan Strehle Klemtner -- No More Sea Changes : Hawkes, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Barth / John Z. Guzlowski -- "il miglior fabbro" : Gaddis' Debt to T.S. Eliot / Miriam Fuchs -- Love and Strife in William Gaddis' JR / Stephen H. Matanle -- Ironic Allusiveness and Satire in William Gaddis's The Recognitions / Elaine B. Safer -- Carpenter's Gothic; or, The Ambiguities / Steven Moore -- Toward Postmodern Fiction / John Johnston -- At Home in Babel / Jonathan Raban -- A Frolic of His Own: Whose Law? Whose Justice? / Christopher J. Knight -- The Importance of Being Negligible / Peter Wolfe.
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A collection of critical essays on William Gaddis' work.
Gaddis, William,1922-1998-- Criticism and interpretation.