Published 1968
by Northwestern University Press in [Evanston, Ill.] .
Written in
Edition Notes
Limited ed. of 400 copies, of which 100 are numbered and signed by the author.
| Statement | by William H. Gass. Designed by Lawrence Levy. Photography by Burton L. Rudman. |
| Series | TriQuarterly supplement no. 2, Tri-quarterly -- no. 2. |
| Classifications | |
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| LC Classifications | PS3557.A845 W5 1968 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | [63] p. |
| Number of Pages | 63 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL17753775M |
Willie Master's Lonesome Wife () by William H. Gass, first published as TriQuarterly Supplement Number Two, is an innovative mini-novel which features black and white photographs of a nude model, who resembles a modern Madame Bovary or Molly Bloom in a text written as an interior monologue, a narrative technique that reveals the female perspective, as Babs considers the concept . In this homage to the pleasures of language, William Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to explore the relationship between a woman and her lover, as well as a book and its reader. Disappointed by her inattentive husband/reader, Babs engages in an exuberant display of the physical charms of language to entice both her new lover and the reader.4/5(1). willie masters' lonesome wife By William Gass. eviewing a novella of so few pages affords the luxury (note the undertone, please) of reread as well as read--that reread without which, as Roland Barthes points out, no critical act is ever possible. Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife. American Literature Series. William H. Gass. In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a .
William Howard Gass (J – December 6, ) was an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (), won the Truman Capote Genre: Creative nonfiction, metafiction. Get this from a library! Willie Masters' lonesome wife. [William H Gass] -- In this homage to the pleasures of language, William Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to explore the relationship between a woman and her lover, as. Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife. By Nathaniel Tarn. is the wife of one Willie Masters, suffers and will suffer the embraces of anonymous and indisoriminate men. Disappointed by her inattentive husband/reader, Babs engages in an exuberant display of the physical charms of language to entice an illicit new lover: a man named Gelvin in one sense, but more importantly, the reader of this "essay-novella" which, in the years since its first appearance in as a supplement to TriQuarterly, has attained the status of a postmodernist Laurence 4/5(1).
Here, reading Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife is likened to making love to Willie Master’s lonesome wife. It ought to be done with care. As Marion Blau explains, “The stupidity of thinking that simulated titillation may in any way substitute for a genuine act of love becomes readily apparent” (44). The book, first published in as a limited-edition, hard-cover supplement to Tri-Quarterly, soon became a postmodern classic, and remains in print. Along with early typescript and manuscript drafts of Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife, the William H. Gass Papers contain a reading version typescript that Gass used at readings. The text was typed. Obsessions! Cacophony! Typography! Listen in as we dissect William H. Gass’ post-modern cult classic, Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife, a bizarre kaleidoscope of . Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass A Casebook. Edited by Richard Henry. With Rolf Samuels and Karen SchiffIn, this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader.
