Jerome Klinkowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 760895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome Klinkowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome |
| FAMILY NAME | Klinkowitz |
| SIGNATURE | KLINKOWITZ J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Vonnegut in Fact
Conversations with Clarence Major
Clarence Major and His Art
Containment Culture
Life of Death
Fire and Power
This text maps the cultural contours of space-age America through readings of some of the era's narratives. It is argued that these texts comprise a literary history of the space age, an exploration of the novel's possibilities in uncertain times and a critique of postwar society
Clarence Major's Innovative Fiction
In a novel,Clarence Major told interviewer John O'Brien only thing you really have is words. You begin with words, and you end with words. The content exists in our minds. I don't firm it has to be a reflection of anything(130). With this statement Major separated himself from the dominantly realistic tradition of both commercial publishing and the academic canon and identified his work with the disruptively experimental style being explored by w…
What Comes Next
Donald Barthelme
Structuring the Void
If, as the literary theorists of postmodernism contend, does not exist, then how can fiction continue to be written? Jerome Klinkowitz, himself a veteran practitioner and theorist of fiction, addresses this question in Structuring the Void, an account of what today's novelists and short story writers do when they produce a fictive work. Klinkowitz's focus is on the way in which writers have turned this lack of content itself into subject matter, …
The New American Novel of Manners
"The West German and American Editions of Peter Handke's "Das Gewicht der Welt
God the Artist
The New American Novel of Manners
The Novel as Performance
Pynchon's Mythography
The exhausting plenitude of loosely connected detail in Gravity s Rainbow makes it a favorite of postmodern critics, who claim it describes a modern, random, unknowable universe. Hume expands the possibilities as she discloses a mythic structure that underlies Pynchon s work and provides easier access to his Myth turns chaos into cosmos, Hume explains, describing how the profuse detail of Pynchon s book allows for the creation of a world humankin…
Words in Reflection
Peter Handke and the Post-Modern Transformation
The Self-Apparent Word
The novel dead was the cry of the 1960s, and so it was as an authoritative report concerning the world; but from that death, Klinkowitz argues, arose a form of writing that celebrates the creative process, a narrative that not about something but is something.Klinkowitz first characterizes the modern fiction of the earlier 20th century wherein the word fades into the background because the story line forms the essence of the fiction. Thus the wor…
The Self-Apparent Word
The Exploded Form
The American 1960s
Pynchon's Fictions
Literary Disruptions
The Diaries of Willard Motley
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The Vonnegut Statement
Literary Disruptions
Literary Disruptions
Kurt Vonnegut
It Takes a Large Cemetery to Bury All of Our Dreams
The Diaries of Willard Motley
Avant-Garde and after
American fiction in the 1970s had stood at the brink of degeneration or transformation, of death or rebirth, according to which critical school one heeds. By the end of the previous decade its self-consciously problematic nature, dating back to Hawthorne's prefaces and Howells' theology of realism, clearly had reached the point of crisis. The issues were representation and mimesis-with one group of novelists and critics insisting that the true ar…
Pynchon's Fictions
Literary Disruptions
The Exploded Form
The American 1960s
Peter Handke and the Post-Modern Transformation
The Self-Apparent Word
The novel dead was the cry of the 1960s, and so it was as an authoritative report concerning the world; but from that death, Klinkowitz argues, arose a form of writing that celebrates the creative process, a narrative that not about something but is something.Klinkowitz first characterizes the modern fiction of the earlier 20th century wherein the word fades into the background because the story line forms the essence of the fiction. Thus the wor…
The Self-Apparent Word
Words in Reflection
God the Artist
The New American Novel of Manners
The Novel as Performance
Pynchon's Mythography
The exhausting plenitude of loosely connected detail in Gravity s Rainbow makes it a favorite of postmodern critics, who claim it describes a modern, random, unknowable universe. Hume expands the possibilities as she discloses a mythic structure that underlies Pynchon s work and provides easier access to his Myth turns chaos into cosmos, Hume explains, describing how the profuse detail of Pynchon s book allows for the creation of a world humankin…
The New American Novel of Manners
"The West German and American Editions of Peter Handke's "Das Gewicht der Welt
What Comes Next
Donald Barthelme
Structuring the Void
If, as the literary theorists of postmodernism contend, does not exist, then how can fiction continue to be written? Jerome Klinkowitz, himself a veteran practitioner and theorist of fiction, addresses this question in Structuring the Void, an account of what today's novelists and short story writers do when they produce a fictive work. Klinkowitz's focus is on the way in which writers have turned this lack of content itself into subject matter, …
Clarence Major's Innovative Fiction
In a novel,Clarence Major told interviewer John O'Brien only thing you really have is words. You begin with words, and you end with words. The content exists in our minds. I don't firm it has to be a reflection of anything(130). With this statement Major separated himself from the dominantly realistic tradition of both commercial publishing and the academic canon and identified his work with the disruptively experimental style being explored by w…
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