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100 1 0 _aAnker, Richard
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245 0 0 _aDisguised Mimesis, or William H. Gass' Uncluttered Modernism
260 _c2013.
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520 _aAlthough everything from Cartesian skepticism to Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system of composition has been evoked in discussing the formal logic of William Gass’s novel, The Tunnel (1995), this paper argues that this logic is fundamentally speculative, in the Hegelian sense of the term, and furthermore that the germ of this logic lies in Plato’s double strategy of exclusion and appropriation of mimesis in The Republic. Far from merely repudiating mimesis, Gass’s (“modernist”) form-alism consists of its speculative purification. The same process is at work with less radical consequences in Gass’s previous novel, Omensetter’s Luck (1966), the onto-mimetological structure of which determines the author’s later work.
690 _aPlato
690 _aWilliam Gass
690 _amimesis
690 _aNazism
690 _amyth
690 _amodernism
786 0 _nRevue française d’études américaines | o 135 | 1 | 2013-11-01 | p. 51-65 | 0397-7870
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2013-1-page-51?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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