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    The William H. Gass reader / [William H. Gass].
    by Gass, William H., 1924-2017.
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    New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
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  • Literature -- History and criticism.
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  • Books and reading.
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  • Authorship.
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    9781101874745 (hardcover) :
    1101874740 (hardcover) :
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    xi, 910 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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    First edition.
    Contents: 
    Introduction. Retrospection ; Fifty literary pillars ; On reading to oneself ; Even if, by all the oxen in the world ; The doomed in their sinking -- Fiction. Omensetter's luck. The love and sorrow of Henry Pimber -- In the heart of the heart of the country. The Pederson kid ; Order of insects ; In the heart of the heart of the country -- The tunnel. The first winter of my married life ; An invocation to the muse ; In my youth ; A fugue ; August bees ; The Sunday drive -- Cartesian sonata. Emma enters a sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's -- Middle C. The piano lesson ; Garden ; The Apocalypse Museum -- Eyes. In camera -- Artists. La vie trèshorrificque : Rabelais revisited -- Robert Walser, an introduction -- Half a man, half a metaphor : the unknown Kafka -- Paul Valéry -- A forest of bamboo : the trouble with Nietzsche -- The high brutality of good intentions -- Henry James's curriculum vitae -- Gertrude Stein and the geography of the sentence -- Go forth and falsify : Katherine Anne Porter and the lies of art -- Three photos of Colette -- Malcolm Lowry -- Rilke's Rodin -- Ezra Pound -- Imaginary Borges and his books -- Invisible cities -- On evil : the ragged core of a sweet apple -- Kinds of killing : the flourishing evil of the Third Reich -- Theory. Philosophy and the form of fiction -- The concept of character in fiction -- The medium of fiction -- The baby or the Botticelli -- Simplicities -- The music of prose -- I've got a little list -- The test of time -- "And" -- The book as a container of consciousness -- The architecture of a sentence -- Carrots, noses, snow, rose, roses -- The soul inside the sentence -- The habitations of the word -- The death of the author.
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