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John Barth
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Author : David Morrell
language : en
Publisher: David Morrell
Release Date : 2015-12-16
John Barth written by David Morrell and has been published by David Morrell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1969, while David Morrell was writing First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created, he also wrote his doctoral dissertation about acclaimed author, John Barth. In it, Morrell analyses Barth’s early fiction, using interviews with Barth, his agent, and his editors as well as several of Barth’s unpublished essays and letters to tell what Morrell calls “the story behind the stories, a biography of Barth’s fiction.” Over the years, scholars have found John Barth: An Introduction invaluable for its lengthy biographical sections, which Barth himself approved. Fans of Morrell’s fiction will find this book enlightening in terms of what Barth taught him about writing. CRITICAL REACTION “David Morrell’s not just a fine writer; he’s also a great and generous teacher.” —New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block “Morrell has written an interesting and informative book which reads occasionally like a biography. His prose is eminently clear and straightforward. His book has something for everyone. There is no doubt that it will become a necessity for serious students of Barth, and that, coincidentally, it is a genuinely interesting book.” —Journal of Modern Literature “Morrell’s study tells the story of Barth’s storytelling, how he got his ideas, and then how the publishers and reviewers dealt with them. He includes detailed biographical information [and] writes with great economy and clarity.” —Modern Fiction Studies “Morrell gives the reader the benefit of his familiarity with Barth and his manuscripts to plot the career of each work, from plans and, in some cases, research through revision, publisher-agent reactions, sales, and post-publication revisions. The whole enterprise is carried off with appealing confidence and informality that add up to an eminently readable book.” —World Literature Today
Passionate Virtuosity
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Author : Charles B. Harris
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1983
Passionate Virtuosity written by Charles B. Harris and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Literary Criticism categories.
John Barth Routledge Revivals
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Author : Heide Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-10-10
John Barth Routledge Revivals written by Heide Ziegler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
John Barth represents most completely what has been termed postmodernism, not because his work comprises more postmodernist features than other contemporary writers but because, for Barth, "life" and "art" are two sides of the same coin. In this brief study, first published in 1987, Heide Ziegler examines all Barth’s novels. She argues that each pair of novels first "exhausts" and then "replenishes" those literary genres that hinge on a particular world view: the existentialist novel, the Bildungsroman, the Kunstlerroman, or the realistic novel. Through the division of labour between character and author Barth manages to develop a new mode of literary parody which projects itself beyond the mocked literary model and even self-parody into the realm of future fiction. This book is ideal for students of literature and postmodern studies.
John Barth Mit Portr Boston Mass 1986 170 S 8
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Author : E. P. Walkiewicz
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Release Date : 1986
John Barth Mit Portr Boston Mass 1986 170 S 8 written by E. P. Walkiewicz and has been published by MacMillan Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
Walkiewicz's penetrating new study addresses Barth's role as a master of his craft and as a leading figure in the creation of a post-modernist critical aesthetic. This book spans the entire range of the Barth canon, including a pointed analysis of the often misunderstood but essential critical essays "The Literature of Exhaustion" and the "Literature of Replenishment." Walkiewicz's appraisal of the intertextual relation of the collection of Barth short stories, novels, and recent forays into the realm of autobiographical fiction illuminates the dramatic shifts in Barth's professional career and literary style. Drawing together Barth's varied and complex sources in myth, music and modern madness, Walkiewicz offers a unified reading of his many guises, thus deciphering the enigma presented by Barth and his work. ISBN 0-8057-7461-0: $18.95.
John Barth And The Anxiety Of Continuance
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Author : Patricia Tobin
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-11-11
John Barth And The Anxiety Of Continuance written by Patricia Tobin and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the sixties and seventies, the fictional "reinventions" of john Barth, along with his misread and influential essay 'The Literature of Exhaustion," established the comic novelist as a leading practitioner and theorist of what was then coming to be called postmodern literature. In more recent years, however, Barth's reputation has been called into question within the ongoing critical debate over the criterion of "originality" and the status of literary repetition, imitation, and parody. In her spirited defense of Barth, Patricia Tobin employs Harold Bloom's theory of belatedness to confront and explode this issue. For Bloom, the later the artist the greater the burden of the past against which he must rebel and the more hopeless his task. However, Tobin argues Barth revels in his belatedness and celebrates the opportunity to survey a rich literary past and to bring back to life its dead forms, genres, and styles by completing, fulfilling, and "exhausting" them. Not a retrospective and negative anxiety of influence, then, but a wholly prospective and positive anxiety of continuance has propelled Barth through a distinguished career. Throughout, Tobin elaborates the conjunctions and disjunctions between Bloom and Barth with surprising results. Most notable, perhaps, is her examination of how Bloom's model of a "map of misreading" helps to elucidate, and even predict, the ways in which Barth sets each new novel in antithetical relation to the one before. Along the way, much is said about modernism and postmodernism, repetition and difference, and what it means poetically and willfully to intend a career. John Barth and the Anxiety of Continuance will be of interest to scholars of American fiction and critical theory.
John Barth And Postmodernism
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Author : Berndt Clavier
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
John Barth And Postmodernism written by Berndt Clavier and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Foreign Language Study categories.
John Barth's eminence as a postmodernist is indisputable. However, much of the criticism dealing with his work is prompted by his own theories of «exhaustion» and subsequent «replenishment, » leaving his writing relatively untouched by theories of postmodernism in general. This book changes that by focusing on the relationship between Barth's aesthetic and the ideology critique of the historical avant-gardes, which were the first to mobilize art against itself and its institutional practices and demands. Examining Barth's metafictional parodies in the light of theories of space and subjectivity, Clavier engages the question of ideology critique in postmodernism by offering the montage as a possible model for understanding Barth's fiction. In such a light, postmodernism may well be perceived as a mimesis of reality, particularly a recognition of the collective nature of self and the world.
Understanding John Barth
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Author : Stanley Fogel
language : en
Publisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1990
Understanding John Barth written by Stanley Fogel and has been published by Columbia : University of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
The main aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive guide to the major writings of John Barth - the author of The Floating Opera, The End of the Road, Chimera, The Tidewater Tales: A Novel and other works. With roots in the 20-century existential tradition, Barth sees human beings stripped of their beliefs in universal values and systems of belief - in God, tradition, reason or literary formulations. He is concerned about the kinds of choices that fulfill human and artistic potential and those that lead to failure, and he is equally concerned about how those choices affect the environment. Art, to him, shapes an awareness not only of literature itself but of self, culture and history, so he tries to review these areas against the grain.
Letters
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Author : John Barth
language : en
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 1994
Letters written by John Barth and has been published by Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
Basically, [Barth] takes several people from his early novels and has them all starting to write to each other, and to him, their letters and experiences directing the plot. And what starts out as what could be a too-cute literary trick winds up being extremely revealing, as the characters pour themselves into the letters, regardless of whom they're writing to, as the plot skips and slips through time. On one level it acts as a sequel to those early novels, continuing their stories and although it's not really required to read those books, I'm not going to pretend it doesn't help. The best thing to do would be to read those old novels in one block and then move onto this . . . I read them some years ago so I was a little fuzzy on the finer points. But I picked it up. But Barth captures the voices of his old characters well and even if you didn't know who was writing what letter, you could tell. And thus they tell the recepient, and us, about their hopes and fears, they mingle together, they lie, they come unglued, and by the end you sort of get a tapestry of their thoughts. There's a plot weaving through here but sometimes it becomes hard to connect it with six different people discussing different angles of it with you, but I just went with it and enjoyed the writing for what it was. --Michael Battaglia at Amazon.com.
Coming Soon
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Author : John Barth
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2001
Coming Soon written by John Barth and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Fiction categories.
In this novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth spoofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of writers who have followed his literary trailblazing. Coming Soon!!! is the tale of two writers: an older, retiring novelist setting out to write his last work and a young, aspiring writer of hypertext intent on toppling his master. In the heat of their rivalry, the writers navigate, and sometimes stumble over, the cultural fault lines between print and electronic fiction, mentor and mentee, postmodernism and modernism.
John Barth
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Author : Richard Allan Vine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
John Barth written by Richard Allan Vine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Literary Criticism categories.
