William Gaddis' 'Ford Foundation Fiasco' and J R's Elision of the Teacher's-Eye View

I analyze William Gaddis’ transmutation, in J R (1975), of material from his abandoned book on instructional TV for the Ford Foundation (1962-3). Finding previously unknown sources for numerous passages of the novel, I focus on a pattern of changed emphasis. Gaddis’ work for Ford is scrupulous about...

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Main Author: Ali Chetwynd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-05-01
Series:Orbit: A Journal of American Literature
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Online Access:https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/488/