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Page 92
... Barth's early novel , The End of the Road , when the hero , Jacob Horner , is being harangued by a doctor about the nature of reality : There's no reason in the long run why Italy shouldn't be shaped like a sausage instead of a boot ...
... Barth's early novel , The End of the Road , when the hero , Jacob Horner , is being harangued by a doctor about the nature of reality : There's no reason in the long run why Italy shouldn't be shaped like a sausage instead of a boot ...
Page 93
... Barth deal with the situation in a different way , not by abandoning the traditional attributes of the novel , but by refus- ing to take them seriously , exaggerating or distorting everything to the point of absurdity or beyond . As ...
... Barth deal with the situation in a different way , not by abandoning the traditional attributes of the novel , but by refus- ing to take them seriously , exaggerating or distorting everything to the point of absurdity or beyond . As ...
Page 94
... Barth's verbal brilliance and skill as a pasticheur , and the narrowness of his emotional range . There is an underlying crudity in the writing which can make Fielding , with whom Robert Scholes rashly compares him , seem infinitely ...
... Barth's verbal brilliance and skill as a pasticheur , and the narrowness of his emotional range . There is an underlying crudity in the writing which can make Fielding , with whom Robert Scholes rashly compares him , seem infinitely ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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