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    <title>John Barth literary manuscripts, 1955-1978 (bulk 1955-1968)</title>
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    <namePart>Barth, John</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1930-</namePart>
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  <abstract>Holograph drafts, annotated typewritten manuscripts, corrected galley and foundry proofs, and miscellaneous editorial material from four of Barth's novels: The Floating Opera (1955), The End of the Road (1958), The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), and Giles Goat-Boy; or, The Revised New Syllabus (1966).  Also includes manuscripts of several of Barth's short stories, nonfiction essays, and speeches.  Among the speeches are drafts of "Jorge Luis Borges and the Literature of Exhaustion" that Barth delivered at various universities in 1966 prior to the publication of his essay "The Literature of Exhaustion" in 1967.</abstract>
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  <note>Audio recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Borges, Jorge Luis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1986</namePart>
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    <topic>American essays</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>American literature</topic>
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