John Barth by Jac Tharpe
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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The Angry Young Men of the Thirties
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G. B. Shaw
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The Novel As Performance
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E. M. Forster
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The Art of Richard Wright
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Shadows of Imagination
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The Early Tales of Henry James
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Nathanael West's Novels
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Nineteenth-Century French Romantic Poets
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Jules Laforgue
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Jews and Americans
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The Art of Southern Fiction
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The New Poetries and Some Old
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A Constant Journey
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The Fiction of Stephen Crane
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The Modern Italian Novel
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Christopher Fry
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Gide's Eagles
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Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
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Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago
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The Character of Truth
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Proletarian Writers of the Thirties
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Bertolt Brecht
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Contemporary European Novelists
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The French Critic
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The Fiction of Philip Roth and John Updike
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Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Revised Edition
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Anais Nin
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Robert Coover
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Margaret Drabble
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Flannery O'Connor
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Stages of the Clown
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Minor American Novelists
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Padraic Colum
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The Fiction of William Gass
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The Plays of Sean O'Casey
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Poets, Critics, Mystics
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Richard Aldington
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In Form
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The Dramaturgy of Style
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Harold Pinter
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Literary Subversion
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American Drama in Social Context
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Contemporary British Novelists
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After the Genteel Tradition
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Norman Mailer
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The Changing Face
"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 LibrariesJac Tharpe is Honors Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780809307029 |
| ISBN 10 | 0809307022 |
| Title | John Barth |
| Author | Jac Tharpe |
| Series | A Chicago Classic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Southern Illinois University Press |
| Year published | 1974-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 148 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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