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... Giles Goat - Boy . * A fictional genre may - and probably will - arise out of some new configuration of contemporary experience , but once it has become established it will in turn condition further attempts to reproduce such new ...
... Giles Goat - Boy . * A fictional genre may - and probably will - arise out of some new configuration of contemporary experience , but once it has become established it will in turn condition further attempts to reproduce such new ...
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... Giles Goat - Boy , Barth's most recent novel , has attained an immense reputation in America , rather similar to that of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet in England in the 1960s . It is , again , a book indicating great skill and ...
... Giles Goat - Boy , Barth's most recent novel , has attained an immense reputation in America , rather similar to that of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet in England in the 1960s . It is , again , a book indicating great skill and ...
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... Giles Goat - Boy , where the giant computer WESAC not only dominates the action of the book , but actually writes it . The implication seems clear : if good old - fashioned ' plot- tiness ' is what one wants , then the computer can be ...
... Giles Goat - Boy , where the giant computer WESAC not only dominates the action of the book , but actually writes it . The implication seems clear : if good old - fashioned ' plot- tiness ' is what one wants , then the computer can be ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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