Passionate Virtuosity: The Fiction of John Barth [Hardcover]

Charles B. Harris (Author)

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Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (November 1, 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 025201037X
ISBN-13: 978-0252010378
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,277,401 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Inside This Book (learn more)

First Sentence:
John Barth's seminal essay "The Literature of Exhaustion" first appeared in the August 1967 Atlantic Monthly. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nameless minstrel, passionate virtuosity, dwells identity, garden consciousness, verbal stratagems, matriarchal consciousness, ontological insecurity

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Sot-Weed Factor, Todd Andrews, The Floating Opera, Giles Goat-Boy, Lady Amherst, Henry Burlingame, Jake Horner, Literature of Exhaustion, Thousand Faces, The New Fiction, Ambrose Mensch, Divided Self, Jerome Bray, Joe Morgan, Joan Toast, Modern Poetry, John Barth, Joseph Campbell, The Age of the World View, The Masks of God, Campbell Tatham, Ebenezer Cooke, Great Mother, Harrison Mack, Garden City

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This book cites 100 books:

The Sot-Weed Factor (Anchor Literary Library) by John Barth on 29 pages
Giles Goat Boy (The Anchor Literary Library) by John Barth on 17 pages
Lost in the Funhouse (The Anchor Literary Library) by John Barth on 16 pages
Floating Opera by John Barth on 16 pages
The Literature Of Exhaustion And The Literature Of Replenishment by John Barth on 13 pages

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5 books cite this book:

Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction (Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies) by Brian Edwards on page 179, and Back Matter
Understanding David Foster Wallace (Understanding Contemporary American Literature) by Marshall Boswell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction by Tom LeClair on page 203
Twentieth-Century Southern Literature (New Perspectives on the South) by J.A. Bryant Jr. in Back Matter
Fiction in the Quantum Universe by Susan Strehle in Back Matter

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