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... John Barth is a distinguished practitioner of the latter approach ; he has remarked that ' if you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament , then what you really want to do is reinvent the world ' . The critic Robert Scholes ...
... John Barth is a distinguished practitioner of the latter approach ; he has remarked that ' if you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament , then what you really want to do is reinvent the world ' . The critic Robert Scholes ...
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... John Bayley and John Barth represent opposed poles in the possible field of discourse about the novel ; in practice most novelists and critics of the novel take up intermediate posi- tions along the spectrum ( for historical and ...
... John Bayley and John Barth represent opposed poles in the possible field of discourse about the novel ; in practice most novelists and critics of the novel take up intermediate posi- tions along the spectrum ( for historical and ...
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... Barth's verbal brilliance and skill as a pasticheur , and the narrowness of his emotional range . There is an ... John Barth sails , determinedly , clear past it ' . Yet it is possible to see Giles Goat - Boy in a more sinister light ...
... Barth's verbal brilliance and skill as a pasticheur , and the narrowness of his emotional range . There is an ... John Barth sails , determinedly , clear past it ' . Yet it is possible to see Giles Goat - Boy in a more sinister light ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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