5Larry McCaffery, The Metafictional Muse: The Works of Robert Coover, Donald Barthelem and William H. Gass. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982), p. 16, p. 25.
6Roger Matuz ed. , Contemporary Literature Criticism, Vol. 87 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1990), p. 23.
7Brian Evenson, Understanding Robert Coover ( South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2003 ), p. 231.
8Thomas E. Kennedy, Robert Coover: A Study of the short fiction. (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992), p. 9.
9Robert Coover, Briar Rose (New York: Grove Press, 1996 ), p. 1, p. 28, p. 66, p. 69, p. 10.
10Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction ( New York : Methuen, Inc, 1987), p. 16, p. 100.
