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William Howard Gass

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
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William Howard Gass 1924-, American author, b. Fargo, N.Dak., grad. Kenyon College, 1947; Ph.D. Cornell, 1954. In 1969 he became a professor of philosophy at Washington Univ., St. Louis. Rejecting traditional realism and interested in experimenting with the novel's form, he has been compared to Sherwood Anderson in his treatment of "grotesque" characters and to James Joyce in his wordplay and linguistic complexity. His works include the novels Omensetter's Luck (1966) and The Tunnel (1995), the "novella-essay" Willie Master's Lonesome Wife (1968), Cartesian Sonata and ...

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