Giles Goat Boy Or The Revised Syllabus

Download Giles Goat Boy Or The Revised Syllabus full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Giles Goat Boy Or The Revised Syllabus ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Giles Goat-Boy

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804152497
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Giles Goat-Boy by : John Barth

Download or read book Giles Goat-Boy written by John Barth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of National Book Award-nominated Lost in the Funhouse, comes an outrageously farcical adventure that challenges our notions of technology, power, and human nature. "[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." —The New York Times Giles Goat-Boy tells the story of a human boy raised as a goat who comes to believe that he is humanity's prophesied messiah. In an absurdist universe that takes the form of a unversity--divided into an authoritarian East Campus and a more open West Campus--young George Giles rises to assume the title of Grand Tutor, the spiritual leader of the world and heroic defender of his people against the threat of a tyrannical computer system. Hailed as a "fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex" (Time magazine), Giles Goat-Boy has long been one of John Barth's most popular and multi-layered narratives.

Giles Goat-boy

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Giles Goat-boy by : John Barth

Download or read book Giles Goat-boy written by John Barth and published by Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday. This book was released on 1966 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George, also known as Billy Bockfuss and as Giles, was raised as a goat rather than as a boy by a brilliant atomic physicist whose guilt about the bomb has driven him to the country. George sets out to become the messianic Grand Tutor of a university and to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his community in this brilliant 'fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex.'

Giles Goat-boy Or, The Revised New Syllabus

Author : John Barth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Giles Goat-boy Or, The Revised New Syllabus by : John Barth

Download or read book Giles Goat-boy Or, The Revised New Syllabus written by John Barth and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chimera

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618131709
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (317 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Chimera by : John Barth

Download or read book Chimera written by John Barth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In CHIMERAJohn Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called "stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant,” Barth retells these tales from varying perspectives, examining the myths’ relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world. A winner of the National Book Award, this feisty, witty, sometimes bawdy book provoked Playboy to comment, "There’s every chance in the world that John Barth is a genius.”

Collected Stories

Author : John Barth
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628972122
Total Pages : 1015 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Collected Stories by : John Barth

Download or read book Collected Stories written by John Barth and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth’s writing was not a response to the realistic fiction that characterized American literature at the time; it beckoned back to the founders of the novel: Cervantes, Rabelais, and Sterne, echoing their playfulness and reflecting the freedom inherent in the writing of fiction. This collection of Barth’s short fiction is a landmark event, bringing all of his previous collections together in one volume for the first time. Its occasion helps readers assess a remarkable lifetime’s work and represents an important chapter in the history of American literature. Dalkey Archive will reissue a number of Barth’s novels over the next few years, preserving his work for generations to come.

Twentieth Century American Literature

Author : Warren French
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134916416X
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Twentieth Century American Literature by : Warren French

Download or read book Twentieth Century American Literature written by Warren French and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-11-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction

Author : Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137330791
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction by : Gerald Alva Miller Jr.

Download or read book Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction written by Gerald Alva Miller Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.

John Barth and the Anxiety of Continuance

Author : Patricia Tobin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512808032
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis John Barth and the Anxiety of Continuance by : Patricia Tobin

Download or read book John Barth and the Anxiety of Continuance written by Patricia Tobin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the sixties and seventies, the fictional "reinventions" of john Barth, along with his misread and influential essay 'The Literature of Exhaustion," established the comic novelist as a leading practitioner and theorist of what was then coming to be called postmodern literature. In more recent years, however, Barth's reputation has been called into question within the ongoing critical debate over the criterion of "originality" and the status of literary repetition, imitation, and parody. In her spirited defense of Barth, Patricia Tobin employs Harold Bloom's theory of belatedness to confront and explode this issue. For Bloom, the later the artist the greater the burden of the past against which he must rebel and the more hopeless his task. However, Tobin argues Barth revels in his belatedness and celebrates the opportunity to survey a rich literary past and to bring back to life its dead forms, genres, and styles by completing, fulfilling, and "exhausting" them. Not a retrospective and negative anxiety of influence, then, but a wholly prospective and positive anxiety of continuance has propelled Barth through a distinguished career. Throughout, Tobin elaborates the conjunctions and disjunctions between Bloom and Barth with surprising results. Most notable, perhaps, is her examination of how Bloom's model of a "map of misreading" helps to elucidate, and even predict, the ways in which Barth sets each new novel in antithetical relation to the one before. Along the way, much is said about modernism and postmodernism, repetition and difference, and what it means poetically and willfully to intend a career. John Barth and the Anxiety of Continuance will be of interest to scholars of American fiction and critical theory.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature

Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0941028763
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature by : R. Reginald

Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

The Wallace Effect

Author : Marshall Boswell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501344919
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Wallace Effect by : Marshall Boswell

Download or read book The Wallace Effect written by Marshall Boswell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace's contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating “The Wallace Effect”-the aura of literary competition that Wallace routinely summoned in his fiction and non-fiction and that continues to inform the reception of his work by his contemporaries. A frankly combative writer, Wallace openly challenged his artistic predecessors as he sought to establish himself as the leading literary figure of the post-postmodern turn. Boswell challenges this portrait in two ways. First, he examines novels by Wallace's literary patriarchs and contemporaries that introduce innovations on traditional metafiction that Wallace would later claim as his own. Second, he explores four novels published after Wallace's ascendency that attempt to demythologize Wallace's persona and his literary preeminence. By re-situating Wallace's work in a broader and more contentious literary arena, The Wallace Effect traces both the reach and the limits of Wallace's legacy.

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 143814069X
Total Pages : 3854 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the American Novel by : Abby H. P. Werlock

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Novel written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction

Author : Alsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900465898X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction by : Alsen

Download or read book Romantic Postmodernism in American Fiction written by Alsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for teachers and students of American Literature, this book is the first comprehensive analysis of romantic tendencies in postmodernist American fiction. The book challenges the opinion expressed in the Columbia History of the American Novel (1991) and propagated by many influential scholars that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction is represented by the disjunctive and nihilistic work of such writers as Kathy Acker, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover. Professor Alsen disagrees. He contends that this kind of fiction is not read and taught much outside an isolated but powerful circle in the academic community. It is the two-part thesis of Professor Alsen's book that the mainstream of postmodernist fiction consists of the widely read work of the Nobel Prize laureates Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison and other similar writers and that this mainstream fiction is essentially romantic. To support his argument, Professor Alsen analyzes representative novels by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, the later John Barth, Alice Walker, William Kennedy, and Paul Auster. Professor Alsen demonstrates that the traits which distinguish the fiction of the romantic postmodernists from the fiction of their disunctive and nihilist colleagues include a vision of life that is a form of philosophical idealism, an organic view of art, modes of storytelling that are reminiscent of the nineteenth-century romance, and such themes as the nature of sin or evil, the negative effects of technology on the soul, and the quest for transcendence.

Fantasy

Author : Richard Mathews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113678554X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Fantasy by : Richard Mathews

Download or read book Fantasy written by Richard Mathews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a broad definition of fantasy to include myth, folklore, legend and fairy tale, this survey of the genre will entice as well as inform any student interested in the mysterious, mystical or magical. Beloved authors like J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard are examined closely.

Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction

Author : James Peacock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135078629
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction by : James Peacock

Download or read book Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction written by James Peacock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two cultures debate, the neurological turn, postmodernism and the post-postmodern, and responses to September 11th. Considering a variety of materials including mainstream literary fiction, the graphic novel, popular fiction, autobiographical writing, film, and television, contributors consider the contemporary dimensions of the interface between the sciences and humanities, developing the debate about the post-postmodern as a new humanism or a return to realism and investigating questions of form and genre, and of literary continuities and discontinuities. Further, the essays discuss contemporary writers’ attempts to engage the relation between the individual and the social, looking at the relation between the "syndrome syndrome" (referring to the prevalence in contemporary literature of neurological phenomena evident at the biological level) and existing work in the field of trauma studies (where explanations tend to have taken a psychoanalytical form), allowing for perspectives that question some of the assumptions that have marked both these fields. The current literary preoccupation with neurological conditions presents us with a new and distinctive form of trauma literature, one concerned less with psychoanalysis than with the physical and evolutionary status of human beings.

The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature

Author : R. Nischik
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137413905
Total Pages : 743 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature by : R. Nischik

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature written by R. Nischik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.

On Endings

Author : Daniel Grausam
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813931614
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On Endings by : Daniel Grausam

Download or read book On Endings written by Daniel Grausam and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. In Grausam's view, previous studies of fiction mimetically concerned with nuclear conflict neither engage the problems that total war might pose to narration nor take seriously the paradox of a war that narrative can never actually describe. Those few critical works that do take seriously such problems do not offer a broad account of American postmodernism. And recent work on postmodernism has offered no comprehensive historical account of the part played by nuclear weapons in the emergence of new forms of temporal and historical experience. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War.

The Fine Line

Author : Eviatar Zerubavel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226981592
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Fine Line by : Eviatar Zerubavel

Download or read book The Fine Line written by Eviatar Zerubavel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eviatar Zerubavel argues that most of the distinctions we make in our daily lives and in our culture are social constructs. He questions the notion that a clear line can be drawn to separate one time or object or concept from another, and presents witty and provocative counterexamples in defense of ambiguity and anomaly.