Synopses & Reviews
Klinkowitz 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.
Review
Klinkowitz is perhaps the only critic of the new fiction who has developed a style . . . adapted to the fiction he writes about, yet without ever sacrificing the scholarly qualities of his work.” Raymond Federman, SUNY-Buffalo
Synopsis
Klinkowitz' 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.
About the Author
Jerome Klinkowitz is Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa.