Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth - Conceptual Fiction.
Think of Giles Goat-Boy as a cross between Tarzan of the Apes and the Holy Bible. John Barth's novel is almost as long as the King James Version, with roughly the same plot line, but with a sprinkling of Burroughs (both Edgar Rice and the computer corp).ANALYSIS. Giles Goat-Boy (1966). John Barth (1930- ) “In the metaphoric world called the University, control is held by a computer, WESAC (WESCAC), which is able to run itself and to tyrannize people, for it has the ability to subject them to a radiating and.Giles Goat-Boy came from what John Barth called the Ur-Myth, or the myth of the hero, that he read about in The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Drama, and Myth by Fitzroy Richard Somerset, fourth.
Ack. Aghh. Though winning a fair measure of benefit-of-the-doubt on sheer absurdity, Giles Goat-Boy seems ultimately to have been a rather pointless shaggy-goat story: a seeming philosophic survey-course that, after oscillating between improbable extreme positions, leaves the reader right back at the start and no better for it. Or considerably worse for have staggered through 700 pages (not.Giles Goat-Boy, satiric allegorical novel by John Barth, published in 1966. The book is set in a vast university that is a symbol for the world. The novel’s protagonist, Billy Bockfuss (also called George Giles, the goat-boy), was raised with herds of goats on a university farm after being found as.
Giles Goat-Boy Summary. One of the attractions that Giles Goat-Boy held for its initial readers, which certainly contributed to its early commercial success, was the allegorical dimension of the novel. In this novel, Barth uses the university as a metaphor for the Cold War and divides his world into Eastern and Western campuses, with various.
