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The William H. Gass reader /

"A literary delight--a reading feast; a Gassian celebration--the best of the best (in more than fifty selections) from an American master of prose, chosen by Gass himself from his essays, criticism, commentary, short stories, and novels. It begins with his essays, in which Gass looks back at va...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gass, William H., 1924-2017 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Literature > History and criticism.
Books and reading.
Authorship.
Literature.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
Short stories.
Excerpts.
Nonfiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Retrospection ; Fifty literary pillars ; On reading to oneself ; Even if, by all the oxen in the world ; The doomed in their sinking
  • Omensetter's luck. The love and sorrow of Henry Pimber
  • In the heart of the heart of the country. The Pederson kid ; Order of insects ; In the heart of the heart of the country
  • The tunnel. The first winter of my married life ; An invocation to the muse ; In my youth ; A fugue ; August bees ; The Sunday drive
  • Cartesian sonata. Emma enters a sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's
  • Middle C. The piano lesson ; Garden ; The Apocalypse Museum
  • Eyes. In camera
  • La vie trèshorrificque : Rabelais revisited
  • Robert Walser, an introduction
  • Half a man, half a metaphor : the unknown Kafka
  • Paul Valéry
  • A forest of bamboo : the trouble with Nietzsche
  • The high brutality of good intentions
  • Henry James's curriculum vitae
  • Gertrude Stein and the geography of the sentence
  • Go forth and falsify : Katherine Anne Porter and the lies of art
  • Three photos of Colette
  • Malcolm Lowry
  • Rilke's Rodin
  • Ezra Pound
  • Imaginary Borges and his books
  • Invisible cities
  • On evil : the ragged core of a sweet apple
  • Kinds of killing : the flourishing evil of the Third Reich
  • Philosophy and the form of fiction
  • The concept of character in fiction
  • The medium of fiction
  • The baby or the Botticelli
  • Simplicities
  • The music of prose
  • I've got a little list
  • The test of time
  • "And"
  • The book as a container of consciousness
  • The architecture of a sentence
  • Carrots, noses, snow, roses, roses
  • The soul inside the sentence
  • The habitations of the word
  • The death of the author.