SOURCE: Christensen, Inger. “John Barth's Metafictional Redemption.” In The Meaning of Metafiction: A Critical Study of Selected Novels by Sterne, Nabokov, Barth, and Beckett, pp. 57-79. Bergen, Norway: Universitetsforlaget, 1981.
In the following essay, Christensen provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of John Barth's metafictional novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy.
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