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... Barth's essay , " The Literature of Exhaustion . " Given prominent publication in the Atlantic Monthly of August , 1967 , following by a year the wide suc- cess of Barth's novel Giles Goat - Boy and the prestigious republica- tion of ...
... Barth's essay , " The Literature of Exhaustion . " Given prominent publication in the Atlantic Monthly of August , 1967 , following by a year the wide suc- cess of Barth's novel Giles Goat - Boy and the prestigious republica- tion of ...
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... Barth's work is the writer seeking immortality . “ Fair as the country was and the goatboy life my fellow's lot , " his narrator of " Anonymiad " confesses , " if I could not've imagined my music's one day whisking me Orionlike to the ...
... Barth's work is the writer seeking immortality . “ Fair as the country was and the goatboy life my fellow's lot , " his narrator of " Anonymiad " confesses , " if I could not've imagined my music's one day whisking me Orionlike to the ...
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... Barth's metaphor for the imagination , as the mechanics of a funhouse , emphasizes its limits above anything else . And there is even less argument for transcendence when it is such a second - best choice . Throughout Barth's recent ...
... Barth's metaphor for the imagination , as the mechanics of a funhouse , emphasizes its limits above anything else . And there is even less argument for transcendence when it is such a second - best choice . Throughout Barth's recent ...
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