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Carnival of Repetition - Gaddis's "The Recognitions" and Postmodern Theory (Hardcover)
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Carnival of Repetition - Gaddis's "The Recognitions" and Postmodern Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
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Although published many decades ago, William Gaddis's The
Recognitions is only now beginning to receive the critical
attention it deserves. Carnival of Repetition, the first
full-length study of the novel, is a sophisticated analysis that
places it in a new literary and cultural context .This novel of the
1950 s is unlike anything else from that decade. It harks back to
the works of high modernism (exemplified by Joyce's Ulysses) and
looks forward to postmodern fiction (especially as practiced by
Barth, Pynchon, and DeLillo). Imitation is its major theme, one
that Gaddis pursues on many levels, across several continents, into
mazes of arcane knowledge and bogus scholarship, and even into the
novel's structure through the repetition of prior texts and the
interplay between literal and disguised quotation. Through an
endless play of repetition, Gaddis con-founds the reader's
recognition of similarity and difference.Johnston uses the theories
of Bakhtin and Deleuze (and others, such as Julia Kristeva) to map
out a context for this most unusual and difficult work. From
Bakhtin, he appropriates the concepts of "carnivalesque" fiction
and dialogism (or a plurality of independent voices, no one more
important than another). From Deleuze, he borrows the idea of the
simulacrum, a copy that presupposes no original and that becomes
meaningful through a process of infinite repetition. With these
instruments, Johnston analyzes the labyrinth of copy and
counterfeit that Gaddis constructs in his novel.
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