8. Singed Phoenix and Gift of Tongues: William Gaddis, The Recognitions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Stendhal's Irony in Red and Black 15
6. 2. Notes on Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground 35
7. 3. In Quest of Casaubon: George Eliot's Middlemarch 56
8. 4. Collapsing Spheres in Flaubert's Sentimental Education 83
9. 5. Mann's Death in Venice: An Allegory of Reading 111
10. 6. History, Time, and the Novel: Reading Woolf's To the Lighthouse 129
11. 7. History and the Devil in Mann's Doctor Faustus 150
12. 8. Singed Phoenix and Gift of Tongues: William Gaddis, The Recognitions 175
13. Epilogue 203
14. Index 215