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Short Season and Other Stories
Jerome Klinkowitz
Each night, from April through August, up to a quarter of a million people in small towns and cities across America watch minor league baseball, experiencing the ups and downs of their local team -- every move, every player, every inning. Welcome to the world of Short Season. Meet the Mason City Royals. Live with the team for five months, across eight mid-western towns, with "no more than two days off from April through August and a night-long bus ride every three to six days." Join in the triumphs and misadventures of its collection of hopefuls and has-beens as they get to know each other in English and Spanish, admire baseball groupies, crisscross backroads propelled by a beery-eyed driver in a rattletrap bus, play cards, steal cars, get sent up and down, and somehow through it all play good enough ball to become the Class A champions. -- Provided by publisher
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Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography
Asa B. Pieratt, Julie Huffman-Klinkowitz, and Jerome Klinkowitz
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The New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane
Jerome Klinkowitz
In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had sustained the novel since its birth—coherent characterization, linear plot, symbolism—became tools of New Journalism. The New American Novel of Manners explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism. In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America, novelists such as Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane located America’s modern-day manners in its semiotics, in the system of signs that envelops us—the blue jeans people wear, the fast food they eat, the décor of the bars they drink in and the rock-and-roll lyrics that play through memories. The new generation of mannerists describe lifestyles that are determined by words and images, by actions that are dictated by what has been read and seen, and patterns of behavior in which life is edited and fictionalized. Klinkowitz reveals a fiction that is once again capable of reflecting the way people live. -- Provided by publisher
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Literary Subversion: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism
Jerome Klinkowitz
Klinkowitz’s comprehensive Introduction provides the clearest, liveliest exploration to date of the technical and critical developments in the art of the novel over the past two decades. Using a variety of approaches from polemic and lyric to personal witness, Klinkowitz discusses John Updike, Grace Paley, Robley Wilson, Ishmael Reed, John Gardner, Thomas McGuane, John Irving, Richard Yates, John Barth, Jerzy Kosinski, Dan Wakefield, and Tom Glynn. -- Provided by publisher
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The Self-Apparent Word: Fiction as Language/Language as Fiction
Jerome Klinkowitz
“The novel is 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 is 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 word is “self-effacing.” Postmodern fiction, on the other hand, features the word. Words in postmodern fiction are opaque, not transparent. Of necessity we notice the word and must look closely at it; thus the word becomes “self-apparent.” -- Provided by publisher
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Peter Handke and the Postmodern Transformation: The Goalie's Journey Home
Jerome Klinkowitz and James Knowlton
In 1966, Peter Handke disturbed the world of German letters with the publication of his first novel and with his attacks on the complacency of German-language writers and their audiences. Since then, Handke—an Austrian whose works include drama, poetry, and critical theory as well as fiction—has become a leading European figure in the internationally established postmodern movement. Klinkowitz and Knowlton survey Handke’s progress as a writer, concentrating on his novels, to determine whether his creativity has been exhausted by his persistent assault on the systems that underlie conventional fiction, drama, and poetry. By placing Handke’s work in the tradition of Gabriel García Márquez’s magic realism and Donald Barthelme’s innovative fictions, the authors demonstrate that postmodern writers can create works of art in which content is effaced and the process of composition assumes increasing importance. Indeed, in so doing, Handke has made that process as humanly interesting and as fictionally dramatic as any stories of The Great Tradition: he has learned to address the human condition within the limits of a rebellious aesthetic. The lesson of the postmodern transformation, Klinkowitz and Knowlton argue, is that the abstraction of content is not a loss; instead, it leads directly to the most essential human concerns. -- Provided by publisher
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The Life of Fiction
Jerome Klinkowitz and Roy R. Behrens
"Applying a radically new style of criticism to the 'new fiction' of Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Donald Barthelme, Hunter S. Thompson, Ishmael Reed, Ronald Sukenick, Gilbert Sorrentino, and others." -- Provided by publisher
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Vonnegut in America: An Introduction to the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut
Jerome Klinkowitz and Donald L. Lawler
This book containing original essays, Vonnegut's life from childhood until the published date of this book are discussed. -- Provided by publisher
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Donald Barthelme: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Annotated Secondary Checklist
Jerome Klinkowitz, Asa B. Pieratt, and Robert Murray Davis
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Younger Critics of North America: Essays on Literature and the Arts
Richard Kostelanetz and Jerome Klinkowitz
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Descriptive Bibliography and Annotated Secondary Checklist
Asa B. Pieratt and Jerome Klinkowitz
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The Vonnegut Statement
Jerome Klinkowitz and John L. Somer
After twenty years of careful preparation as a writer, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. has emerged as a major American novelist whose books have sold in the millions. This volume contains fourteen original essays by various academic critics and novelists on all facets of Vonnegut's life and work which, taken together, offer the most complete and coherent picture of the writer's career. The book deals with Vonnegut as a public personage as well as a literary figure and assesses his literary achievement. Contributors include Dan Wakefield, Robert Scholes, Joe David Bellamy, James Mellard, Jess Ritter, and other well-known writers and critics. Jerome Klinkowitz has published essays on Hawthorne, Howells, Faulkner, and on numerous contemporary novelists. He teaches at the University of Northern Iowa. John Somer is the author of several textbooks on literature and composition, and is now preparing a book-length study of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. He is an assistant professor at Kansas State College. -- Provided by publisher
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