"Repetitions with a Difference": The Case of John Barth's LETTERS

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Abstract

Playing with the memory capacity of language on all narrative levels, John Barth redefines the notion of repetition. In this article a closer look is taken at how Barthian repetition in LETTERS relates to Kierkegaardian repetition, Derridean iterability and Heideggerian Wiederholung.

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Terwyl hy met die geheuekapasiteit van taal op alle narratiewe vlakke speel, herdefinieer John Barth die begrip herhaling. Hierdie artikel kyk na Barthiaanse herhaling in LETTERS en bring dit in verband met Kierkegaardiaanse herhaling, Derrideaanse iterabiliteit en Heideggeriaanse Wiederholung.

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Loes Nas, Stellenbosch University

Loes Nas lectures in the Department of English at the University of the Western Cape. She was awarded the Ph.D. in June 1994 by the University of Cape Town for her research on John Barth's later fiction. She has studied at the University of Nijmegen and the University of Minneapolis and came to South Africa in 1989. 

 

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1993-09-01

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Nas, Loes. 1993. “‘Repetitions With a Difference’: The Case of John Barth’s LETTERS”. Journal of Literary Studies 9 (3/4):16 pages. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/jls/article/view/20951.

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Vol. 9 No. 3/4 (1993)

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Copyright (c) 1993 Loes Nas

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