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... writer of fiction , but he also tried his hand at poetry , children's books , and plays for the stage and the radio , as well as opera libretti and film and television scripts . He was a literary critic , a book reviewer , and a ...
... writer of fiction , but he also tried his hand at poetry , children's books , and plays for the stage and the radio , as well as opera libretti and film and television scripts . He was a literary critic , a book reviewer , and a ...
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... writer of ideas that Gardner most insistently commands our atten- tion . One does not say this , obviously , out of a wish to berate this author's literary powers . Taking issue with John Barth's famous essay , " The Literature of ...
... writer of ideas that Gardner most insistently commands our atten- tion . One does not say this , obviously , out of a wish to berate this author's literary powers . Taking issue with John Barth's famous essay , " The Literature of ...
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... writer must have if he is to maintain his spell on readers : a voice which is distinctly his own . The main focus of my study , therefore , will be on some important defining characteristics of that voice . My emphasis on Gardner's ...
... writer must have if he is to maintain his spell on readers : a voice which is distinctly his own . The main focus of my study , therefore , will be on some important defining characteristics of that voice . My emphasis on Gardner's ...
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... writers that have come before him ; most notably this strategy has given rise to his experi- mentation with genre ... writer , his allusive method would certainly be a defining characteristic of prime importance . Chapter 6 is a case ...
... writers that have come before him ; most notably this strategy has given rise to his experi- mentation with genre ... writer , his allusive method would certainly be a defining characteristic of prime importance . Chapter 6 is a case ...
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