Giles Goat-Boy
How does the author employ metaphor in the novel, Giles Goat-Boy?
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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 quadrangles identified with the major powers of post-World War II politics.
Giles Goat-Boy