William Gaddis, contemporary literature, analysis Gaddis, The Recognitions

Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's the Recognitions

Moore, Steven

Literature & Fiction

University Of Nebraska Press

In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work. This revised and expanded edition includes new chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the posthumous novella Agape Agape, along with updated introductory and concluding chapters.  This introduction offers a clear discussion of all five of Gaddis's novels, providing essential biographical information, two chapters each on his most significant novels, The Recognitions and J R, and a chapter each devoted to his later three novels. A concluding chapter locates his place in American literature and notes his influence on younger writers. Each chapter focuses on the main themes of each novel and discusses the literary techniques Gaddis deployed to dramatize those themes. Since Gaddis is an erudite, allusive novelist, Moore clarifies his references and explains how they enhance his themes.

William Gaddis (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

History & Criticism

Twayne

The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories―between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and civilians, trying to explain what is going on―while also denying a lot of the context that is important for the telling of that story. The landscape is so mountainous and isolating that one incident or anecdote might not fit into a bigger picture beyond itself. A patrol may have no effect on the one that comes next. The war has ground itself into such a stasis that it is hard to see movement or plot. Yet we’re there. We have to say something. We have to be accountable, even though the circumstances complicate the ability to talk about it while simultaneously creating a constant yearning to do so. The Longer We Were There follows a part-time soldier’s experience over seven years in the Iowa Army National Guard. He enlists at seventeen into the infantry, then bounces between college classes, army training, disaster relief, civilian jobs, a deployment in Afghanistan―first on the Afghan-Pakistani border, then into a remote valley in the Hindu Kush Mountains―and finally comes home. His stories are about having one foot on each side of the civilian-military divide, the difficulty of describing one side to those on the other, and how, as a consequence of this difficulty, that divide gets replicated within the self.

The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

University of Georgia Press

Vampire in Verse: An Anthology

Dracula Pr

A comprehensive history—and controversial reappraisal—of the world's most popular and innovative literary form.

The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

Continuum

Bloomsbury Academic

As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows us, changes us. What Moore has to say about rural places speaks to anyone who has driven a lonely road at night, with nothing but darkness as a cushion between them and the emptiness that surrounds. Place and how we define it--and how it defines us--is a through line throughout the collection of eleven essays. Moore writes about where we come from and the disconnection we often feel between each other: between veterans and nonveterans, between people of different political beliefs, between regions, between eras. These pieces build into a contemplative whole, one that is a powerful meditation on why where we come from means something and how we'll always bring where we are with us, no matter where we go.

The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country

Essays & Correspondence

The University of North Carolina Press

Glorious Incorporated: The Joshua Chronicles

Xlibris, Corp.

In the ongoing war between good and evil, many battles are fought on many fronts. Leaders emerge from the unlikeliest circumstances to tip the balance of power. The power of good embodied in Jonah International, a powerful corporate entity whose only interest is in ensuring mankind's power of choice and thwarting evil at every turn. The world is falling under an influence of darkness and is in desperate need of a defender to lead them into the light. The leaders at Jonah believe that the answers lie in Joshua Arden, a young man with a hard life whose destiny could change the face of humanity and faith forever. The choice to accept this responsibility is his own. How will he choose? SM

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Gnome Legends: Exile

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's the Recognitions

William Gaddis (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction)

Vampire in Verse: An Anthology

The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country

Glorious Incorporated: The Joshua Chronicles

Glorious Incorporated: The Joshua Chronicles

Gnome Legends: Exile