The Tale of Tyrone's dick

[dennis grace]

Jan opines:

>Actually, for me the Tale of Tyrone's Dick is closer to the Garcia   
>Marquez of 100 Years of Solitude, than it is to Coover and Barth.   
> Indeed, I think Barth in particular is not writing about "the real   
>world", and I think there are major differences in the projects of   
>Pynchon and Barth.  To express it crudely, I think Barth is essentially   
>writing self-referential pomo texts which have very little to do with   
>"reality" as you express it above.  Whereas part of Pynchon's project,   
>like Garcia Marquez', does involve taking real historical material and   
>reflecting it thru the prism of art.

I'll see your phenomenological read of Barth's oeuvre and raise you one
_GILES Goat-Boy_.

BTW, where do you situate Coover's "Babysitter" or "The Magic Poker" in this
reality scale?

dgg
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Dennis Grace
University of Texas at Austin
English Department
Recovering Medievalist
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Micel yfel deth se unwritere.
                           AElfric of York