The Friday book : essays and other nonfiction

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The Friday book : essays and other nonfiction

John Barth

(Maryland paperback bookshelf)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Maryland paperback bookshelf ed

  • : pbk

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Note

Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984. With a new afterword

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This nonfiction work is what Barth callls "an arrangement of essays and occaisonal lectures, some previously published, most not, most on matters literary, some not, accumulated over 30 years or so of writing, teaching and teaching writing". Barth speculates on the future of literature and the literature of the future. He looks back too upon historical fiction and fictitous history.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA35467553
  • ISBN
    • 0801855578
  • LCCN
    96036083
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Baltimore
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 283 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Classification
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