John Barth is an amazingly versatile nov elist who has attempted every imaginable fictional genre from word games to a tale told by a computer. Jac Tharpe's brilliant analysis is the first and only comprehen sive study to date to attempt to chart Barth's philosophical, comic, and stylistic development. Ranging through the entire corpus of Barth's work-- The Floating Opera , The End of the Road , The Sot-Weed Factor , Giles Goat-Boy , Lost in the Funhouse , and Chimera --Tharpe assesses Barth's achievement as a ...
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John Barth is an amazingly versatile nov elist who has attempted every imaginable fictional genre from word games to a tale told by a computer. Jac Tharpe's brilliant analysis is the first and only comprehen sive study to date to attempt to chart Barth's philosophical, comic, and stylistic development. Ranging through the entire corpus of Barth's work-- The Floating Opera , The End of the Road , The Sot-Weed Factor , Giles Goat-Boy , Lost in the Funhouse , and Chimera --Tharpe assesses Barth's achievement as a completely intellectual yet marvelously carnal comic writer. Es pecially valuable is his investigation of Barth's language and artistic technique.
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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Signed and Inscribed By Author to Eco-pioneer Joseph Meeker below dedication on colophon page: "...And to J.M. unite prospects of renewal-J. T.". (shelfwear and sm. nicks to jacket at extremities).
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Preface by Harry T. Moore. 8vo. Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xi, 133pp. Near fine/very good. Most minor of jacket edgewear. Quite tight and lovely first edition of this volume in general editor Moore's "Crosscurrents / Modern Critiques" series, with an interesting twist: From the library of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013), who compiled "Critical Essays on John Barth" (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980) and who lightly pencils some margin squiggles here and there in this copy.
