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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Open Library of Humanities
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Orbit: A Journal of American Literature |
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| Online Access: | https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/488/ |