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Mantissa can mean: (According to the Oxford English Dictionary) "an addition of comparatively small importance, esp. to a text or discourse; a supplement" The fractional part (i.e. the part after the separator) of a common logarithm. The "fraction part"...


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Cyborg or goddess: postmodernism and its others in John Fowles's Mantissa.(Critical Essay)
06/22/2003: 6,318 words, approx. 21 pages
John Fowles's Mantissa defines its title, and by implication, its whole enterprise, as a mere "addition of comparatively small importance, especially to a literary effort or discourse"(Fowles 182). This paper offers a feminist and poststructuralist re-reading which reveals that the text's use of parody...
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The Washington Post
Metal Mantissa: Less Than Integral
03/11/1994: 170 words, approx. 1 pages
AT SOME high school reunions, they give an award to the person who's traveled farthest to get there. A similar award should be available for Mantissa, a New York-based quintet that's journeyed all the way from Melbourne, Australia, to purvey its tired retro-rock. At...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Raymond J. Wilson III
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In the following essay, Wilson interprets Fowles's novel Mantissa as an allegorical attack on poststructuralist theory.


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