{"product_id":"paper-empire-joseph-tabbi-9780817315481","title":"Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCelebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America's most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis's collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen's lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis's legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, critic Hal Foster suggested a reason for disparate responses to Gaddis's reputation: Gaddis's unique hybridity, his ability to \"write in the gap between two dispensations--between science and literature, theory and narrative, and--different orders of linguistic imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gaddis (1922-1998) is often cited as the link between literary modernism and postmodernism in the United States. His novels--The Recognitions, JR, Carpenter's Gothic, and A Frolic of His Own--are notable in the ways that they often restrict themselves to the language and communication systems of the worlds he portrays. Issues of corporate finance, the American legal system, economics, simulation and authenticity, bureaucracy, transportation, and mass communication permeate his narratives in subject, setting, and method. The essays address subjects as diverse as cybernetics theory, the law, media theory, race and class, music, and the perils and benefits of globalization. The collection also contains a memoir by Gaddis's son, an unpublished interview with Gaddis from just after the publication of JR, and an essay on the Gaddis archive, newly opened at Washington University in St. Louis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The editors acknowledge that we live in an age of heightened global awareness. But as these essays testify, few American writers have illuminated as poignantly or incisively just how much the systemic forces of capitalism and mass communication have impacted individual lives and identity--imparting global dimensions to private pursuits and desires--than William Gaddis. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Tabbi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817315489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817315481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 7.92w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2007 pg. 283","brand":"Joseph Tabbi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086955917567,"sku":"9780817315481","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_037fb7cb-a672-4426-b1de-1809e4fd5a40.jpg?v=1769097466","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/paper-empire-joseph-tabbi-9780817315481","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}