Further Reading
- Charyn, Jerome, "Three Critical Notes," Review of Contemporary Fiction 12, No. 2 (Summer 1992): 120-3. (Charyn reflects on his initial reading of “The Pedersen Kid” and the story's significance in contemporary American literature.)
- Feld, Ross, "Timing and Spacing the As If: Poetic Prose and Prosaic Poetry," Parnassus 20, Nos. 1 and 2 (January 1995): 11-31. (Feld comments on the function of poetry and prose and offers unfavorable evaluation of The Tunnel.)
- Kaufmann, Michael, "The Textual Body: William Gass's Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife," Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction XXXV, No. 1 (Fall 1993): 27-42. (Examines the interrelationship between author, reader, text, and reality as reflected in the linguistic construction of Gass's fictional wife in Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife.)
- LaHood, Marvin J., Review of Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas, by William H. Gass, World Literature Today 73, No. 2 (Spring 1999): 333-4. (Offers a summary and equivocal judgement of Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas.)
- McCourt, James, "Fiction in Review," Yale Review 83, No. 3 (July 1995): 159-69. (Examines the psychological, literary, and mythological themes of The Tunnel, drawing parallels to the dilemmas of Hamlet and Daedelus.)
- Stewart, Susan, "An American Faust," American Literature 69, No. 2 (June 1997): 399-416. (Provides an overview of the central themes, structure, and literary allusions of The Tunnel, drawing attention to the novel's associations with the Faust stories of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann.)
- Varsava, Jerry A., "Mimesis and the Reader: A Reading," in Contingent Meanings: Postmodern Fiction, Mimesis, and the Reader, pp. 2-40. Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University Press, 1990. (Includes discussion of Gass's postmodern literary and theoretical principles.)
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