Conversations with William H. Gass by Theodore G. Ammon - 9781617037016

Conversations with William H. GassAuthor(s): Theodore G. Ammon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781617037016, 978-1617037016\nSynopsis\nConversations with William H. Gass captures the imagination and philosophical acumen of one of America's most important aestheticians, critical theorists, fiction writers, and essayists.\n\nFrom his first major novel, Omensetter's Luck [tel], to his numerous collections of essays and philosophical inquiries, to his controversial novel The Tunnel [tel], Gass (b. 1924) has proved himself a meticulous craftsman. Throughout these interviews, he reveals an aesthetic that combines ideas from sources as disparate as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gertrude Stein, and Plato.\n\nThe interviews make clear the unity behind Gass's views is by his own design. Conversations retrace his undergraduate years at Kenyon College and his subsequent philosophical inv.