John Barth
Barth, John - bärth, 1930–, American novelist, b. Cambridge, Md. He attended Johns Hopkins (B.A. 1951, M.A. 1952), and, beginning in 1973, taught writing at its graduate school for nearly 20 years. Barth's postmodern novels, experimental, comic, self-referential, and often sprawling, reflect his anger and despair at a world he finds ludicrous and meaningless. While his early books Read More...
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Between Two Worlds: The American Novel in the 1960's (Chap. V "John Barth: The Teller Who Swallowed His Tale")
by Sanford Pinsker. 139 pgs.
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From Displacement to Compactness: John Barth's The Floating Opera, in Critique
by Maurice Couturier. 20 pgs.
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Self-Knowledge and Self-Conception: The Therapy of Autobiography in John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, in Studies in Short Fiction
by W. Todd Martin. 7 pgs.
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Done with Mirrors: Restoring the Authority Lost in John Barth's Funhouse, in Twentieth Century Literature
by Marjorie Worthington. 23 pgs.
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The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction (Chap. 5 "'Neither One Nor Quite Two': Barth's Lost in the Funhouse")
by Gordon E. Slethaug. 236 pgs.
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Silverless Mirrors: Book, Self & Postmodern American Fiction (Chap. 4 "Lost in the Funhouse and Other Refractions")
by Charles Caramello. 254 pgs.
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Paradox of Origin(ality): John Barth's 'Menelaiad,' in Studies in Short Fiction
by Benzi Zhang. 10 pgs.
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Fiction in the Quantum Universe (Chap. 5 "John Barth Letters and the Relative Frame")
by Susan Strehle. 282 pgs.
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The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon (Chap. VIII "A Trestle of Letters")
by Brian Stonehill. 222 pgs.
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The Confessions of Todd Andrews: Double-Directed Discourse in The Floating Opera, in Studies in the Novel
by Chris Conti. 19 pgs.
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