From the time "J R won the National Book Award in 1976, Gaddis has been recognized as one of the foremost voices in post-war fiction. CONTENTS Introduction Harold Bloom To Soar in Atonement: Art as Expiation in Gaddis’s The Recognitions by Joseph S. Salemi “For a Very Small Audience”: The Fiction of William Gaddis by Susan Strehle Klemtner No More Sea Changes: Hawkes, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Barth by John Z. Guzlowski “il miglior fabbro”: Gaddis’ Debt to T.S. Eliot by Miriam Fuchs Love and Strife in William Gaddis’ JR Stephen by H. Matanle Ironic Allusiveness and Satire in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions by Elaine B. Safer Carpenter’s Gothic; or, The Ambiguities by Steven Moore Toward Postmodern Fiction by John Johnston At Home in Babel by Jonathan Raban A Frolic of His Own: Whose Law? Whose Justice? by Christopher J. Knight The Importance of Being Negligible by Peter Wolfe Chronology Contributors Bibliography Acknowledgments Index