John Barth and the Anxiety of Continuance /

With its control of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tea, cotton, and indigo production in India, Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dominated the global economy of tropical agriculture. In Colonizing Nature, Beth Fowkes Tobin shows how dominion over "the tropics" as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tobin, Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
Temas:
Barth, John, > 1930- > Criticism and interpretation.
Barth, John, > 1930-
Anxiety in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Anxiety in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • The Map of Misprision
  • 1. Introduction: Creative Revisionism as Career
  • 2. The Floating Opera (1956): Beginning with Almost-Death
  • 3. The End of the Road (1958): At the Nihilist Terminal
  • 4. The Sot-Weed Factor (1960): Discontinuity Through Repetition
  • 5. Giles Goat-Boy (1966): The Heroic Career, Beyond Oedipus
  • 6. Lost in the Funhouse (1968) and Chimera (1972): The Hero Minors in Metaphor
  • 7. LETTERS (1979): Funerary Fare-Thee-Wells
  • 8. Sabbatical, A Romance (1982): Literalizing the Lateral
  • 9. The Tidewater Tales (1987): Conjugality's Cartography
  • 10. The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991): Reflowering the Deflorated Virgin
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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