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Transgressions : the Iowa anthology of innovative fiction / edited by Lee Montgomery, Mary Hussmann, and David Hamilton ; foreword by William H. Gass.
- Title
- Transgressions : the Iowa anthology of innovative fiction / edited by Lee Montgomery, Mary Hussmann, and David Hamilton ; foreword by William H. Gass.
- Publication
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1994.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS648.S5 T69 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 268 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Thirty years ago, American literature was turned on its ear by a band of young writers whose work challenged the essence of the fictional narrative itself. The social mayhem of the sixties and seventies inspired a new wave of work variously known as postmodern, irrealist, metafictional, or experimental. Suddenly, American fiction goaded and shocked audiences with self-referential tactics and other extremes in form and genre. This was the height of the antistory, when plot and punctuation were often thrown to the wind as writers emphasized disorder over order, style over content, and nonnarrative over narrative formulations. Fictional settings grew equally uncertain, and characters had disembodied voices or no voice at all. It was an outrageous, controversial time when a nation and its literature exploded and raised questions not only about the past of fiction but about its future." "Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction, selected and edited by past and present editors of the Iowa Review picks up where the sixties and seventies left off, presenting work by masters of the "experimental" movement as well as debuting young writers who find new ways to offer nontraditional forms. William Gass, one of the nation's most notable writers of both fiction and literary-philosophical essays, contributes the foreword and a story to this volume." --Book Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: anywhere but Kansas / William H. Gass -- Before the days of dreaming / Kathy Acker -- From a work in progress / George Angel -- Closing out the visit / John Barth -- Bright is innocent / Jonathan Baumbach -- The spectacle / Mary Caponegro -- The best things in life / Lenora Champagne -- The new thing / Robert Coover -- Analogue / Susan Daitch -- S & M / Jeffrey De Shell -- from Phosphor in dreamland / Rikki Ducomet -- The shade man / Patricia Eakins -- from EHMH: An oceanic romance / Eurudice -- Step-mothers / Federman/Chambers -- Emma enters a sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's / William H. Gass -- Circe / Laura Cerrity -- Armand the frog / John Hawkes -- The man with the arm / Lucy Hochman -- from Swanny's ways / Steve Katz -- Kalamazoo is where Kalamazoo is / Janet Kauffman -- And variation / Jim Krusoe -- Sausage / Stacey Levine -- Works from The war between houses and wind / Ben Marcus -- Your name here / Cris Mazza -- Barbary Coast nightworld / Julie Regan -- from Grape Architect / Lou Robinson -- The burial of Count Orgasm / Ronald Sukenick -- It was a great marvel that he was in the father without knowing him (II) / David Foster Wallace -- from Memories of my father on T.V. / Curtis White -- The helpmeet ; An argument for staying the same ; the everlasting sipper / Diane Williams -- When post-realism (and the 1960s) came to Iowa City: an afterword / Robert F. Sayre.
- ISBN
- 0877454744
- LCCN
- ^^^94060574^
- OCLC
- 31236732
- SCSB-12862656
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library