The Recognitions

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681374673

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The Recognitions by William Gaddis Pdf

A postmodern masterpiece about fraud and forgery by one of the most distinctive, accomplished novelists of the last century. The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world. The book is a masquerade, moving from New England to New York to Madrid, from the art world to the underworld, but it centers on the story of Wyatt Gwyon, the son of a New England minister, who forsakes religion to devote himself to painting, only to despair of his inspiration. In expiation, he will paint nothing but flawless copies of his revered old masters—copies, however, that find their way into the hands of a sinister financial wizard by the name of Recktall Brown, who of course sells them as the real thing. Dismissed uncomprehendingly by reviewers on publication in 1955 and ignored by the literary world for decades after, The Recognitions is now established as one of the great American novels, immensely ambitious and entirely unique, a book of wild, Boschian inspiration and outrageous comedy that is also profoundly serious and sad.

Author : Steven Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015003682450

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A Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's The Recognitions by Steven Moore Pdf

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015002166968

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J R by William Gaddis Pdf

At the center of this hugely comic tale of "free enterprise" America stands JR--an eleven-year-old capitalist, eagerly following the example of the grasping world around him. Operating through pay phones and post-office money orders, JR inadvertently parlays a shipment of Navy surplus picnic forks, a defaulted bond issue, and a single share of common stock into a vast paper empire embracing timber, mineral and natural gas rights, publishing, and a brewery. At once a novel of epic comedy and a biting satire of the American dream, JR displays the style and extraordinary inventiveness that has made Gaddis one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439125472

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Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis Pdf

A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions, Carpenter’s Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on the American legal system.

Author : John Johnston
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512806427

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Carnival of Repetition by John Johnston Pdf

Although published many decades ago, William Gaddis's The Recognitions is only now beginning to receive the critical attention it deserves. Carnival of Repetition, the first full-length study of the novel, is a sophisticated analysis that places it in a new literary and cultural context . This novel of the 1950 s is unlike anything else from that decade. It harks back to the works of high modernism (exemplified by Joyce's Ulysses) and looks forward to postmodern fiction (especially as practiced by Barth, Pynchon, and DeLillo). Imitation is its major theme, one that Gaddis pursues on many levels, across several continents, into mazes of arcane knowledge and bogus scholarship, and even into the novel's structure through the repetition of prior texts and the interplay between literal and disguised quotation. Through an endless play of repetition, Gaddis con­founds the reader's recognition of similarity and difference. Johnston uses the theories of Bakhtin and Deleuze (and others, such as Julia Kristeva) to map out a context for this most unusual and difficult work. From Bakhtin, he appropriates the concepts of "carnivalesque" fiction and dialogism (or a plurality of independent voices, no one more important than another). From Deleuze, he borrows the idea of the simulacrum, a copy that presupposes no original and that becomes meaningful through a process of infinite repetition. With these instruments, Johnston analyzes the labyrinth of copy and counterfeit that Gaddis constructs in his novel.

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781681375847

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The Letters of William Gaddis by William Gaddis Pdf

A revelatory collection of correspondence by the lauded author of titanic American classics such as The Recognitions and J R, shedding light on his staunchly private life. UPDATED WITH OVER TWO DOZEN NEW LETTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Now recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis shunned the spotlight during his life, which makes this collection of his letters a revelation. Beginning in 1930 when Gaddis was at boarding school and ending in September 1998, a few months before his death, these letters function as a kind of autobiography, and also reveal the extent to which he drew upon events in his life for his fiction. Here we see him forging his first novel, The Recognitions (1955), while living in Mexico, fighting in a revolution in Costa Rica, and working in Spain, France, and North Africa. Over the next twenty years he struggles to find time to write the National Book Award–winning J R (1975) amid the complications of work and family; deals with divorce and disillusionment before reviving his career with Carpenter’s Gothic (1985); then teaches himself enough about the law to produce A Frolic of His Own (1994). Resuming his lifelong obsession with mechanization and the arts, he finishes a last novel, Agapē Agape (published in 2002), as he lies dying. This newly revised edition includes clarifying notes by Gaddis scholar Steven Moore, as well as an afterword by the author’s daughter, Sarah Gaddis.

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440650031

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Agape Agape by William Gaddis Pdf

William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, Agape Agape is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.

Author : Marguerite Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young Pdf

Author : Jack Green
Publisher : American Literature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1564786099

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Fire the Bastards! by Jack Green Pdf

"Fire the Bastards! "is a scorching attack on the book-review media using the critical reception of William Gaddis's 1955 novel "The Recognitions "as a case study.

Author : Douglas Hatten
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780615180021

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The Recognitions of Clement by Douglas Hatten Pdf

Recognitions is a captivating text dating back to the early Christian church and referenced by early church fathers Origen and Eusebius. The narrative is addressed to James the Just, the Bishop of Jerusalem, and is recorded by one Clement, a Greek, who chronicles a series of discourses by the apostle Peter, which he is witness to while accompanying Peter in his travels. Clement begins his account by detailing his own religious search before hearing of Christ. While in Rome, Clement hears the preaching of Barnabas who testifies of the miracles and teachings of Jesus. Clement, being moved by the words of Barnabas, defends him from a mob and ends up following after him to Palestine where he meets up with Peter. A large portion of the text is devoted to an intriguing disputation between Peter and Simon the Sorcerer before an audience of onlookers. Peter invites Clement to accompany him in his travels from city to city, creating an opportunity for Clement to be instructed more perfectly concerning the faith.

Author : Pope Clement I
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Canon law
ISBN : OXFORD:590239862

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The Clementine Homilies by Pope Clement I Pdf

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101176979

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The Rush for Second Place by William Gaddis Pdf

William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those works he earned himself a reputation as one of America's greatest novelists. Less well known is Gaddis's body of excellent critical writings. Here is a wide range of his original essays, some published for the first time. From "'Stop Player. Joke No. 4,'" Gaddis's first national publication and the basis for his projected history of the player piano, to the title essay about missed opportunities in America during the past fifty years, to "Old Foes with New Faces," an examination of the relationship between the writer and the problem of religion-this diverse collection displays the power of an autonomous literary intelligence in an age increasingly dominated by political and religious conservatism.

Author : John Kuehl,John Richard Kuehl,Steven Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UOM:39015029837450

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In Recognition of William Gaddis by John Kuehl,John Richard Kuehl,Steven Moore Pdf

Author : Gëzim Visoka,John Doyle,Edward Newman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351131735

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Routledge Handbook of State Recognition by Gëzim Visoka,John Doyle,Edward Newman Pdf

This new handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the theoretical and empirical aspects of state recognition in international politics. Although the recognition of states plays a central role in shaping global politics, it remains an under-researched and widely dispersed subject. Coherently and innovatively structured, the handbook brings together a group of international scholars who examine the most important theoretical and comparative perspectives on state recognition, including debates about pathways to secession and self-determination, the broad range of actors and strategies that shape the recognition of states and a significant number of contemporary case studies. The handbook is organised into four key sections: Theoretical and normative perspectives Pathways to independent statehood Actors, forms and the process of state recognition Case studies of contemporary state recognition This handbook will be of great interest to students of foreign policy, international relations, international law, comparative politics and area studies. Chapter 19 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Atlantic Books (UK)
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Married people
ISBN : 184354167X

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Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis Pdf

In this tempestuous novel, Liz and Paul, the occupants of Carpenter s Gothic do battle with the Reverend Ude to preserve the African mission on which they live.