JOHN BARTH: The Comic Sublimity of Paradox
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1976
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Preface by Harry T. Moore. 8vo. Red orange cloth, with gilt spine titles. Red top-stain. 133 pages, with Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. No names or marks. Dust-jacket (with price intact) is chipped and edge worn. A title in the Crosscurrents series.
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- Title
- JOHN BARTH: The Comic Sublimity of Paradox
- Author
- Tharpe, Jac
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
- Publication year
- 1976
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809307022
- ISBN 13
- 9780809307029
- Edition
- Second Printing.
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- Literature
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 Tharpes brilliant analysis is the first and only comprehensive study to date to attempt to chart Barths philosophical, comic, and stylistic development.
Ranging through the entire corpus of Barths work?The Floating Opera, The End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the Funhouse, and Chimera?Tharpe assesses Barths achievement as a completely intellectual yet marvelously carnal comic writer. Especially valuable is his investigation of Barths language and artistic technique.
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About the Author
Jac Tharpe is Honors Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Waugh Books
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