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"I wouldn't recommend just any book on Gaddis simply because it dealt with my favorite author. . . . But Comnes's book is a truly valuable study that raises Gaddis criticism to a new level of critical sophistication."--Steven Moore, senior editor, Dalkey Archive Press William Gaddis is one of the most significant postwar American novelists. His three large and experimental works-- The Recognitions, J R (which won the National Book Award in 1975), and Carpenter's Gothic --sell to a reverential underground. In this first discussion of the ethical dimension of Gaddis's novels, Gregory Comnes maintains that Gaddis writes "epistomological" novels, narratives whose form provides readers with the means to understand how a postmodern ethics is possible. To establish this position Comnes argues three points. The first is that ethical concepts derive from fundamental epistemological principles--that "oughts" are legitimated by what passes for what "is." The second is that Gaddis's novels employ the epistemological concepts, grounded in quantum science, as principles of composition and form. From this interpretation, the novels dramatize the truth described by contemporary science. Readers of

Author

Comnes, Gregory

Publisher

Gainesville: University Press of Florida

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813019284

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities