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William H. Gass
Gass, William Howard
William Howard Gass, 1924–, American author, b. Fargo, N.Dak., grad. Kenyon College, 1947; Ph.D. Cornell, 1954. In 1969 he became a professor of philosophy at Washington Univ., St. Louis. Rejecting traditional realism and interested in experimenting with the novel's form, he has been compared to Sherwood Anderson in his treatment of "grotesque" characters and to James Joyce in his wordplay and linguistic complexity. His works include the novels Omensetter's Luck (1966) and The Tunnel (1995), the "novella-essay" Willie Master's Lonesome Wife (1968), Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas (1998), and works of literary criticism, including Fiction and Figures of Life (1970), Habitations of the Word (1985), Finding a Form (1996), Reading Rilke (2000), and Tests of Time (2002).
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright© 2012, The Columbia University Press.Selected full-text books and articles on this topic at Questia
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
Blanche H. Gelfant; Lawrence Graver. Columbia University Press, 2000
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Blanche H. Gelfant; Lawrence Graver. Columbia University Press, 2000
Librarian’s tip: "William H. Gass 1924-" p. 272
Silverless Mirrors: Book, Self & Postmodern American Fiction
Charles Caramello. University Presses of Florida, 1983
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Charles Caramello. University Presses of Florida, 1983
Librarian’s tip: Chap. 3 "Fleshing Out Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife"
The Fiction of William Gass: The Consolation of Language
Arthur M. Saltzman. Southern Illinois University Press, 1986
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Arthur M. Saltzman. Southern Illinois University Press, 1986
Avid Monsters: The Look of Agony in Contemporary Literature
Saltzman, Arthur. Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 45, No. 2, January 1999
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Saltzman, Arthur. Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 45, No. 2, January 1999
Leviathan. (When Words Don't Fail)
Gass, William. Artforum International, Vol. 40, No. 3, November 2001
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Gass, William. Artforum International, Vol. 40, No. 3, November 2001
Engaging a Unique Form in Gass' Essays
Walters, Colin. The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 1, 1996
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Walters, Colin. The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 1, 1996