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John Barth is an amazingly versatile novelist 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 comprehensive 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. Especially valuable is his investigation of Barth’s language and artistic technique.
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Highly recommended.” Choice, College and Research Libraries
Jac Tharpe is Honors Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Tharpe has written a concise, very knowledgeable, and sometimes even profound philosophical statement on Barth’s intellectual concerns and how his prose articulates them. . . . Tharpe has the corpus of Barth’s fiction under control as few critics do and . . . he can discuss it with confidence that one responds to.”
Modern Fiction Studies
[Tharpe] produces a rare kind of criticism that not only illuminates a difficult subject, but also reflects an agonized sharing of problems analogous to the subject’s that he conquers through a similar mastery of craft.” Warren French, American Literature
Highly recommended.” Choice, College and Research Libraries
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- PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0809307022
- ISBN 13 9780809307029
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages148
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