Background
Klinkowitz, Jerome Francis was born on December 24, 1943 in Milwaukee. Son of Jerome Francis and Lucille Ann (McNamara) Klinkowitz.
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Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present by Jerome Klinkowitz (1980-12-06)
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Literary Subversions: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism (Crosscurrents: Modern Critiques) by Jerome Klinkowitz (1985-08-06)
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Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography
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Vonnegut In America
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Owning a Piece of the Minors (Writing Baseball) by Jerome Klinkowitz (1999-04-07)
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Kurt Vonnegut's America
(Kurt Vonnegut's death in 2007 marked the passing of a maj...)
Kurt Vonnegut's death in 2007 marked the passing of a major force in American life and letters. Jerome Klinkowitz, one of the earliest and most prolific authorities on Vonnegut, examines the long dialogue between the author and American culture--a conversation that produced fourteen novels and hundreds of short stories and essays. Kurt Vonnegut's America integrates discussion of the fiction, essays, and lectures with personal exchanges and biographical sketches to map the complex symbiotic relationship between Vonnegut's work and the cultural context from which it emerged--and which it in turn helped shape. Following an introduction characterizing Vonnegut as Klinkowitz came to know him over the course of their friendship, this study charts the impact of Vonnegut on American society and of that society on Vonnegut for more than a half-century to illustrate how each informed the other. Among his artistic peers, Vonnegut was uniquely gifted at anticipating and articulating the changing course of American culture. Kurt Vonnegut's America shows us that Vonnegut achieved greatness by passing his own test--opening the eyes of his audience to help them better understand their roles and possibilities in the common culture they both shared and crafted.
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Literary Subversion: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism (A Chicago Classic)
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Klinkowitz’ comprehensive Introduction provides the clearest, liveliest exploration to date of the technical and critical developments in the art of the novel over the past two decades. Using a variety of approaches from polemic and lyric to personal witness, Klinkowitz discusses John Updike, Grace Paley, Robley Wilson, Ishmael Reed, John Gardner, Thomas McGuane, John Irving, Richard Yates, John Barth, Jerzy Kosinski, Dan Wakefield, and Tom Glynn.
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The Self-Apparent Word: Fiction as Language/Language as Fiction
( The novel is dead” was the cry of the 1960s, and so it...)
The novel is dead” was the cry of the 1960s, and so it was as an authoritative report concerning the world; but from that death, Klinkowitz argues, arose a form of writing that celebrates the creative process, a narrative that is not about something but is something. Klinkowitz first characterizes the modern” fiction of the earlier 20th century wherein the word fades into the background because the story line forms the essence of the fiction. Thus the word is self-effacing.” Postmodern fiction, on the other hand, features the word. Words in postmodern fiction are opaque, not transparent. Of necessity we notice the word and must look closely at it; thus the word becomes self-apparent.”
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Innovative fiction: Stories for the seventies
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Vintage paperback
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Writing under fire: Stories of the Vietnam War (A Delta book)
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20 stories providing the full spectrum of the Vietnam War experience, from the front line to poignant humanity, questioning the reasons for American involvement in the war
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The Vonnegut Statement - Original Essays On The Life and Works Of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(Anthology. Contributor Joe David Bellamy (Kurt Vonnegut f...)
Anthology. Contributor Joe David Bellamy (Kurt Vonnegut for President: The Making of an Academic Reputation); Tim Hildebrand; Tim Hildebrand (Three Things I Know About Kurt Vonnegut's Imagination); Jerome Klinkowitz (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: The Canary in a Cathouse); Jerome Klinkowitz (Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, and the Crimes of Our Time); Jerome Klinkowitz (Vonnegut Bibliography (With Asa B. Pieratt Jr., And Stanley Schatt)); Jerome Klinkowitz (Vonnegut Statement (With John Somer)); Jerome Klinkowitz (Why They Read Vonnegut); Glen Meeter (Vonnegut's Formal and Moral Otherworldliness: Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five); James M. Mellard (Modes of Vonnegut's Fiction: Or, Player Piano Ousts Mechanical Bride and the Sirens of Titan Invade the Gutenberg Galaxy); Jess Ritter (Teaching Kurt Vonnegut on the Firing Line); Robert Scholes (Chasing a Lone Eagle: Vonnegut's College Writing); Robert Scholes (Talk with Kurt Vonnegut Jr.); John Somer (Geodesic Vonnegut; Or, If Buckminster Fuller Wrote Novels); Dan Wakefield; Dan Wakefield (In Vonnegut's Karass); Karen Wood (Vonnegut Effect: Science Fiction and Beyond (With Charles Wood))
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Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition by Jerome Klinkowitz (1991-05-22)
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Owning a Piece of the Minors (Writing Baseball)
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The New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane
( In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened,...)
In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened, the traditional novel form seemed less suited to describe American reality. Theorists groped towards non-mimetic fiction as the tools that had sustained the novel since its birth―coherent characterization, linear plot, symbolism―became tools of New Journalism. The New American Novel of Manners explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism. In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America, novelists such as Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane located America’s modern-day manners in its semiotics, in the system of signs that envelops us―the blue jeans people wear, the fast food they eat, the décor of the bars they drink in and the rock-and-roll lyrics that play through memories. The new generation of mannerists describe lifestyles that are determined by words and images, by actions that are dictated by what has been read and seen, and patterns of behavior in which life is edited and fictionalized. Klinkowitz reveals a fiction that is once again capable of reflecting the way people live.
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Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition
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Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents both an appreciation and a comprehensive examination of the life work of this pathbreaking contemporary writer. A blend of close reading, biography, and theory, this retrospective—informed by Klinkowitz’s expert command of postmodern American fiction—contributes significantly to a new understanding of Barthelme’s work. Klinkowitz argues that the central piece in the Barthelme canon, and the key to his artistic method, is his widely acknowledged masterpiece, The Dead Father. In turning to this pivotal work, as well as to Barthelme’s short stories and other novels, Klinkowitz explores the way in which Barthelme reinvented the tools of narration, characterization, and thematics at a time when fictive techniques were largely believed to be exhausted. Klinkowitz, who was one of the first scholars to study Barthelme’s work and became its definitive bibliographer, situates Barthelme’s life and work within a broad spectrum of influences and affinities. A consideration of developments in painting and sculpture, for example, as well as those of contemporaneous fiction, contribute to Klinkowitz’s analysis. This astute reading will provide great insight for readers, writers, and critics of contemporary American fiction seeking explanations and justifications of Barthelme’s critical importance in the literature of our times.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Descriptive Bibliography and Annotated Secondary Checklist,
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Jerome Francis Klinkowitz
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Marquette U., Milwaukee, 1966; Master of Arts, Marquette U., Milwaukee, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1970.
Career
Assistant Professor of English, Northern Illinois U., DeKalb, 1969-1972; associate Professor of English, U. Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, 1972-1976; professor, university distinguished scholar, U. Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, since 1986; executive director, Waterloo (Iowa) Professional Baseball, Inc., 1979-1994; professor, university distinguished scholar, U. Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, since 1976. Musician various professional bands, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, 1960-1977.
Achievements
Works
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The Self-Apparent Word: Fiction as Language/Language as Fiction
( The novel is dead” was the cry of the 1960s, and so it...)
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Literary Subversion: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism (A Chicago Classic)
( Klinkowitz’ comprehensive Introduction provides the cl...)
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Writing under fire: Stories of the Vietnam War (A Delta book)
(20 stories providing the full spectrum of the Vietnam War...)
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Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition
( Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) is regarded as one of the ...)
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The New American Novel of Manners: The Fiction of Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane
( In the 1960s, as the underpinnings of society weakened,...)
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Kurt Vonnegut's America
(Kurt Vonnegut's death in 2007 marked the passing of a maj...)
-
Innovative fiction: Stories for the seventies
(Vintage paperback)
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The Vonnegut Statement - Original Essays On The Life and Works Of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
(Anthology. Contributor Joe David Bellamy (Kurt Vonnegut f...)
- The Vonnegut Statement
- Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present by Jerome Klinkowitz (1980-12-06)
- Literary Subversions: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism (Crosscurrents: Modern Critiques) by Jerome Klinkowitz (1985-08-06)
- Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography
- Vonnegut In America
- Owning a Piece of the Minors (Writing Baseball) by Jerome Klinkowitz (1999-04-07)
- Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition by Jerome Klinkowitz (1991-05-22)
- Owning a Piece of the Minors (Writing Baseball)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Descriptive Bibliography and Annotated Secondary Checklist,
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The Self-Apparent Word: Fiction as Language/Language as Fiction
Membership
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/American Center, National Association Professional Baseball Leagues.
Connections
Married Elaine Ann Ptaszynski, January 29, 1966 (divorced January 1978). Children: Jonathan, Nina. Married Julie Ann Huffman-Klinkowitz, May 27, 1978.
