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This novel deals with self-revelations of an American academic who is trying to write an introduction for a book that he has just completed, "Guilt and Innocence in Hutler's Germany." The book can be opened to almost any page and read as fragments of self-contained poetry. It has many Joycean elements in its presentation. This version of the book has a collaged yellow Jewish star on page 30 with the inscription "JUDE" whereas the purchased version on its release did not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Cloud books provided the following annotation: "Gass's attempt to direct attention to the process of how literature unfolds on the page and his request that both critics and raeders pay more attention to the "building blocks of literature" - the way words are used in physically constructing the shape and edifice of the book - was brillaintly executed in this experimental essay/novella. The work embodies Gass's view that literature is language and that a reader should respond to the sensuous body of language with the same sort of excitement and participation that he would to any other sensual experience. Narrated by Baby Babs Masters, the lonseome wife of the title who is lady language herself, Willie Masters emphasizes the sensuous qualities of language - its colors, sounds, shapes, and textures - in almost every conceivable fashion. Each of the four sections of the book is printed on different-colored, different-textured pages; the photographs and large variety of graphic and...

Scope and Contents Cloud books provided the following annotation: "Gass's attempt to direct attention to the process of how literature unfolds on the page and his request that both critics and raeders pay more attention to the "building blocks of literature" - the way words are used in physically constructing the shape and edifice of the book - was brillaintly executed in this experimental essay/novella. The work embodies Gass's view that literature is language and that a reader should respond to the sensuous body of language with the same sort of excitement and participation that he would to any other sensual experience. Narrated by Baby Babs Masters, the lonseome wife of the title who is lady language herself, Willie Masters emphasizes the sensuous qualities of language - its colors, sounds, shapes, and textures - in almost every conceivable fashion. Each of the four sections of the book is printed on different-colored, different-textured pages; the photographs and large variety of graphic and...

Scope and Contents Cloud books provided the following annotation: "Gass's attempt to direct attention to the process of how literature unfolds on the page and his request that both critics and raeders pay more attention to the "building blocks of literature" - the way words are used in physically constructing the shape and edifice of the book - was brillaintly executed in this experimental essay/novella. The work embodies Gass's view that literature is language and that a reader should respond to the sensuous body of language with the same sort of excitement and participation that he would to any other sensual experience. Narrated by Baby Babs Masters, the lonseome wife of the title who is lady language herself, Willie Masters emphasizes the sensuous qualities of language - its colors, sounds, shapes, and textures - in almost every conceivable fashion. Each of the four sections of the book is printed on different-colored, different-textured pages; the photographs and large variety of graphic and...

Scope and Contents Cloud books provided the following annotation: "Gass's attempt to direct attention to the process of how literature unfolds on the page and his request that both critics and readers pay more attention to the "building blocks of literature" - the way words are used in physically constructing the shape and edifice of the book - was brilliantly executed in this experimental essay/novella. The work embodies Gass's view that literature is language and that a reader should respond to the sensuous body of language with the same sort of excitement and participation that he would to any other sensual experience. Narrated by Baby Babs Masters, the lonsome wife of the title who is lady language herself, Willie Masters emphasizes the sensuous qualities of language - its colors, sounds, shapes, and textures - in almost every conceivable fashion. Each of the four sections of the book is printed on different-colored, different-textured pages; the photographs and large variety of graphic and...