Postmodernist fiction
Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Willie Masters Lonesome Wife / Gass, William H.., 1968
Item
Identifier: CC-43048-45095
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...
Dates:
1968
Willie Masters Lonesome Wife / Gass, William H.., 1968
Item
Identifier: CC-43049-45096
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...
Dates:
1968
Willie Masters Lonesome Wife / Gass, William H.., 1992
Item
Identifier: CC-43050-45097
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...
Dates:
1992
Xtie Malry's Own Double-Entry (Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry) / Johnson, B.S.., 1972
Item
Identifier: CC-35506-37243
Scope and Contents
This is a macabre tale of a young man who requires that his misfortunes be met by punishing others and recording both events in double-entry book keeping format. The book was first published in England in 1973 with the title, "Christie Malry's Own Double Entry." The binding with a notebook cover was done by Gyorgy Novak. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1972