Understanding John Barth
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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.
A Study Guide For John Barth S Lost In The Funhouse
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date :
A Study Guide For John Barth S Lost In The Funhouse written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Literary Criticism categories.
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analyses Barth’s early fiction, using interviews with Barth, his agent, and his editors as well as several of Barth’s unpublished essays and letters to tell what Morrell calls “the story behind the stories, a biography of Barth’s fiction.”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
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.
A Reader S Guide To John Barth
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Author : Zack R. Bowen
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1994
A Reader S Guide To John Barth written by Zack R. Bowen and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
Barth's complex, controversial novels are interpreted, with reference to to recurring themes and attention to Barth criticism, to guide the intelligent reader through these virtuoso presentations of the narrative process.
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.
A Conversation With John Barth
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Author : John Barth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
A Conversation With John Barth written by John Barth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Fiction 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
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Author : Gabrielle Dean
language : en
Publisher: Scholarly Series
Release Date : 2016
John Barth written by Gabrielle Dean and has been published by Scholarly Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Postmodernism (Literature) categories.
For the past half-century, John Barth has been recognized as our quintessential postmodernist and praised as one of the best writers "we have ever had" (New York Times Book Review). In this unique collection, thirty-six writers and critics look back at Barth's career, providing a deeper understanding of his books as well as privileged glimpses into the man behind the books. Like Barth's sixth work of fiction, John Barth: A Body of Words is a bit of a chimera: a tripartite hybrid of tributes and reminiscences from friends, colleagues, fellow writers, and former students; a sheaf of cutting-edge scholarly essays; and a triadic conclusion comprising a description of the Sheridan Libraries Barth Collection, a rare recording of a 1966 public reading by Barth, and a two-part radio interview with him. At once a Festschrift, an assemblage of academic essays written to honor a colleague, and a liber amicorum, a book of friends, and illustrated with photos from Barth's life and career, this volume provides Barth's critics, students, and fans with an essential vade mecum to his life and works.
Every Third Thought
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Author : John Barth
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2012-10-16
Every Third Thought written by John Barth and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-16 with Fiction categories.
John Barth stays true to form in Every Third Thought, written from the perspective of a character Barth introduced in his short story collection The Development. George I. Newett and his wife Amanda Todd lived in the gated community of Heron Bay Estates until its destruction by a fluke tornado. This event, Newett notes, occurred on the 77th anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash, a detail that would appear insignificant if it were not for several subsequent events. The stress of the tornado's devastation prompts the Newett–Todds to depart on a European vacation, during which George suffers a fall on none other than his 77th birthday, the first day of autumn (or more cryptically, fall). Following this coincidence, George experiences the first of what is to become five serial visions, each appearing to him on the first day of the ensuing seasons, and each corresponding to a pivotal event in that season of his life. As the novel unfolds, so do these uncanny coincidences, and it is clear that, as ever, Barth possesses an unmatched talent in balancing his characteristic style and wit with vivid, page–turning storytelling.