Tests of Time (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: William H. Gass
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Authors or writers, Literature, Religion, Storytelling, Censorship, Thought or thinking, Fundamentalism
Although William H. Gass is well known as a fiction writer, beginning with his novel Omensetter’s Luck (1966) and his short-story collection In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, and Other Stories (1968) and culminating with his 1995 masterpiece The Tunnel, it may very well be that in the future his literary reputation will rest equally on his critical essays. A profound and thoughtful philosopher and critic, Gass, along with John Barth and Robert Coover, was largely responsible for narrative experimentation and the theory of self-reflexive fiction in the...
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