Yearbook of Comparative Criticism, Volume 9Joseph Strelka |
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Page 73
... fiction , one dimension of which keeps point- ing to the classical myths - like John Updike's Centaur , or Joyce's Ulysses , or Malamud's The Natural . Much as one may admire these novels in other respects , their authors have hold of ...
... fiction , one dimension of which keeps point- ing to the classical myths - like John Updike's Centaur , or Joyce's Ulysses , or Malamud's The Natural . Much as one may admire these novels in other respects , their authors have hold of ...
Page 74
... fiction as a genre , it should be possible to discover a measure of common ground in considering the way in which such fiction is read and in clarifying our initial responses to it . For one basic and largely underestimated feature of ...
... fiction as a genre , it should be possible to discover a measure of common ground in considering the way in which such fiction is read and in clarifying our initial responses to it . For one basic and largely underestimated feature of ...
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... fiction does not entail an alternative approach to the ones so far cited , but an additional and , it can be argued , more immediate consideration of the characteristics of a certain ... fiction , this process of MYTHOLOGICAL FICTION 75.
... fiction does not entail an alternative approach to the ones so far cited , but an additional and , it can be argued , more immediate consideration of the characteristics of a certain ... fiction , this process of MYTHOLOGICAL FICTION 75.
Contents
THE MYTH OF THE ARTIST | 3 |
MYTH POETRY AND CRITICAL THEORY | 51 |
MYTHOLOGICAL FICTION AND THE READING | 72 |
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