SOURCE: "Fowles's Allegory of Literary Invention: Mantissa and Contemporary Theory," in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring, 1990, pp. 61-72.
In the following essay, Wilson interprets Fowles's novel Mantissa as an allegorical attack on poststructuralist theory.
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