• fabulism. Giles Goat-Boy is one of Barth's most complex novels, a multi-layered narrative about the spiritual development of George Giles, goat boy. The book...
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    Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the Cold...
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  • Lars Görling [sv]'s 491, Gunter Grass's Cat and Mouse, John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy and Gore Vidal's Messiah and Live from Golgotha. Gospel Gospel (genre)...
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    Kirino's The Goddess Chronicle.[non-primary source needed] In the novel, Giles Goat-Boy, author John Barth makes reference to the people of Japan as the "Amaterasu...
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  • of Burlingame in The Sot-Weed Factor), Jerome Bray (associated with Giles Goat-Boy and Chimera) and Ambrose Mensch (from Lost in the Funhouse). The book...
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  • Look up Giles in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The surname Giles or Gyles comes from the given name Giles. Bearers of this surname derive from the original...
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  • (1965) Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina (1966) Giles Goat-Boy, Or, The Revised New Syllabus by John Barth (1966) Other Men's Daughters...
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    as a promotional offer after losing a relative. John Barth's novel Giles Goat-Boy contains a forty-page parody of the full text of Oedipus Rex called...
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  • producer (Pantera) (b. 1942) John Barth, 93, writer (The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the Funhouse) (b. 1930) Christopher Durang, 75, playwright...
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  • American biochemist. John Barth, 93, American writer (The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the Funhouse). Kevin Batiste, 57, American baseball player...
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