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Page 14
... seems . . . that Pynchon does produce a serious study of the state of consciousness in contemporary America , while a writer like Barth , who opts to emphasize his mockery of plots at an extreme , excessively plotted length , seems to ...
... seems . . . that Pynchon does produce a serious study of the state of consciousness in contemporary America , while a writer like Barth , who opts to emphasize his mockery of plots at an extreme , excessively plotted length , seems to ...
Page 120
... seems intensely relevant to the ego , suddenly seems more real " ( pp . 14-15 ) . There is a role for the fic- tionist even when , as Sukenick describes in the opening paragraph of his story " The Death of the Novel , " " Reality doesn ...
... seems intensely relevant to the ego , suddenly seems more real " ( pp . 14-15 ) . There is a role for the fic- tionist even when , as Sukenick describes in the opening paragraph of his story " The Death of the Novel , " " Reality doesn ...
Page 144
... seems to feel that way . " What the children hope to leave behind is the Great Depression : " It was the kind of trauma that can only happen when you wake up from a dream you think is the real thing . " But the children are in fact ...
... seems to feel that way . " What the children hope to leave behind is the Great Depression : " It was the kind of trauma that can only happen when you wake up from a dream you think is the real thing . " But the children are in fact ...
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