SOURCE: Cioffi, Frank L. “Coover's (Im)Possible Worlds in The Public Burning.” Critique 42, no. 1 (fall 2000): 26–37.
In the following essay, Cioffi explores the problematic representation of real and fictive worlds in The Public Burning, particularly as evident in the character of Richard Nixon, whose fictional persona in the novel subverts his actual historical identity, thus unsettling the reader's assumptions about American history and fiction itself.
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