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Carpenter’s Gothic by William Gaddis

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Author Biography

Name: William Gaddis
Variant Name: William (Thomas) Gaddis
Birth Date: 1922
Place of Birth: New York City
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of William Gaddis
5678 words, approx. 18.9 pages
For William Gaddis, writing novels entailed a quasi-religious seriousness, akin, in spirit, to a ceremony of consolation. His novels may appear different from one another on the surfaces; yet, they each return to a set of abiding concerns, including the...
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Biography of William Gaddis
4633 words, approx. 15.4 pages
"William Gaddis was born in New York City in 1922. His earlier and only other published work, The Recognitions, appeared in 1955." That is the complete biographical note on the jacket of Gaddis's second novel, J R (1975), and about all he would have the...


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Carpenter’s Gothic Information
127 words, approx. 1 pages
Carpenter's Gothic is the title of the third novel by William Gaddis, published in 1985 by Viking. The title connotes a "Gothic" tale of haunted isolation, in a milieu stripped of all pretensions. Gaddis's second shortest novel, Carpenter's Gothic...


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Gothic Studies
The Gothic
11/01/2004: 1,897 words, approx. 6 pages
The Gothic by David Punter and Glennis Byron, Blackwell Guides to Literature (Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2004), ISBN 0-631-22063-1, xx + 315pp., £16.99 pb. This contribution to the Blackwell Guides series is unabashedly a primer for students just beginning to understand Gothic...
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Gothic Studies
Romanticism and the Gothic
11/01/2005: 1,123 words, approx. 4 pages
Romanticism and the Gothic by Michael Gamer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), ISBN 0-52177-328-8, xiii + 255 pp., $59.95. While the concept of'romanticism' has broadened to encompass a wide range of writers and genres, Michael Gamer's excellent study is the first sustained attempt...
 


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