Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pretext: Criticism and fiction in an age of subversions
  • 1. The essay as polemic: John Barth: fiction in an age of criticism
  • Ishmael Reed's multicultural aesthetic
  • John Irving's world according to fiction
  • 2. The essay as lyric: John Updike's America
  • Grace Paley: the sociology of metafiction
  • Robley Wilson's experimental realism
  • 3. The essay as meditation: John Gardner's Grendel
  • Thomas McGuane: the novel of manners
  • Radicalized
  • Richard Yates: the power of sadness
  • 4. The essay as witness: Betrayed by Jerzy Kosinski
  • At home with Dan Wakefield
  • Postcards from Tom Glynn
  • Subtext: The critic par lui-même.