JEROME KLINKOWITZ is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author or editor of many books on postwar culture and literature, among them Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction, Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World, and The Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present.

Readers who are less familiar with these authors than they might be can benefit from the broad economy of [Klinkowitz's] presentation. . . . Though Klinkowitz's thesis occasionally staggers under the weight of his operative term, he does good service by reminding us of development in this tradition, and by honoring three authors whose contributions have been sometimes neglected under the pressing fascinations of one critical moment or another.

JEROME KLINKOWITZ is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author or editor of many books on postwar culture and literature, among them Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction, Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World, and The Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present.

Readers who are less familiar with these authors than they might be can benefit from the broad economy of [Klinkowitz's] presentation. . . . Though Klinkowitz's thesis occasionally staggers under the weight of his operative term, he does good service by reminding us of development in this tradition, and by honoring three authors whose contributions have been sometimes neglected under the pressing fascinations of one critical moment or another.

JEROME KLINKOWITZ is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author or editor of many books on postwar culture and literature, among them Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction, Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World, and The Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present.

Readers who are less familiar with these authors than they might be can benefit from the broad economy of [Klinkowitz's] presentation. . . . Though Klinkowitz's thesis occasionally staggers under the weight of his operative term, he does good service by reminding us of development in this tradition, and by honoring three authors whose contributions have been sometimes neglected under the pressing fascinations of one critical moment or another.