Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: “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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Looks at how politicians, writers, journalists, rock musicians, and, especially, Vietnam affected the culture of the sixties

Traces the development of realism in U.S. fiction, looking closely at the work of Hawthorne, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Updike, and Vonnegut

Fictional narratives depicting the experiences of American and Vietnamese characters demonstrate the horror and senselessness of war

Descriptions, critiques, interviews, letters, and collages are combined to provide a survey of fiction produced by twelve innovative American writers in the late 1960s and the 1970s

Papers spanning the course of Vonnegut's life and career, supplemented by an album of photographs and a panel discussion, illuminate the American writer's development, techniques, and concerns

Examines the major works, personality, literary technique and widespread appeal of the dynamic American writer