The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction

abstract alienation American analog Anthony Wilden Art of Excess artistic audience Barth Bertalanffy Breathers Brecht calls Cates Cates's chaos chaos theory chapters characters Coming Home Condors contemporary conventions Coover correspondences create critics cultural describes discourse Don DeLillo Earth ecology economic epic theater fiction future Gaddis Gaddis's Gaia Germaine Gravity's Rainbow Gregory Bateson Guin Guin's Happened Heller's human imitate John Barth Joseph McElroy Kesh kind language LETTERS literary living Lookout Cartridge master masterworks Mayn Mayn's McElroy's means metafictional metaphors multiple narrator Nixon North Owl novels of excess oral Pandora paradigm performance political postmodern Press processes Public Burning Pynchon reader realism reciprocal reformulation relations represent Robert Coover runaway says scale Slocum Slothrop story structure synecdochic systems novelists systems novels systems theory systext theater Thomas Pynchon tion transcendence Univ whole Wilden William Gaddis Women writing York