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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"John Barth"”.
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John Barth, Ebenezer Cooke, and the literature of exhaustion
… visit to Maryland. In 1960 contemporary novelist John Barth wrote a novel, also entitled The Sot-Weed Factor and used Cooke's life and poem as sources. In order to understand why Barth chose these eighteenth-century sources for his twentieth-century novel, one must first examine his theory of …
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The Tower and The Maze: A Study of the Novels of John Barth
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Studies in metafiction and postmodernism
… in fictions by Borges, Robbe-Grillet, and John Barth. Typically, these studies also encounter the need to define contemporary metafictions as postmodern. As a result, metafiction becomes both the logical extension of a developing narrative tradition and definitive of the postmodern.
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Unicorns Are Not Real and Neither Are You: Peter S. Beagle's Postmodern Fairy Tale
… lenses of Bruno Bettelheim, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Barth, and Brian McHale. By simultaneously deconstructing and following fairy tale conventions/tropes, <em>The Last Unicorn</em> offers its reader a postmodern story that explores the reality of fiction. The complex merging of reality and myth …
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The redemptive imagination: The fiction of John Irving.
… Rorty's Contingency, Solidarity and Irony, John Barth's "The Literature of Replenishment," and Christian theology as frames of reference, this thesis argues that Irving recognizes the contingency of language systems which shape our personal and public networks of "beliefs, desires and …
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The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction
… Richardson, Henry James, William Faulkner, John Barth and Bernard Malamud. The third chapter treats fiction written by women that explores the woman's desire to elude such possession. Whereas the voyeur is typically an outsider looking in the window, the woman who seeks her freedom is …
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Recondite Reading: William Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic and the Difficulties of Late Modernism
… three theorists of postmodernist literature, John Barth, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian McHale, are used to examine Gaddis's novel in terms of periodization. Barth's "Literature of Replenishment" differentiates between late modernist and postmodernist texts. Hutcheon's concept of complicitous …
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Great Conversations: Systems, Complexity, and Epic Encyclopedic Narratives in Contemporary American Fiction 1960-2007
… By applying systems paradigms to works by John Barth, Richard Powers, Annie Proulx, and Junot Díaz, the emergence of the epic encyclopedic narrative as a distinct form signifies the necessity of diversity, ambiguity, and noise in the operation of systems and the production of knowledge. …
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Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.
… in the chapter include the Revelation of John and Thomas Pynchon's short story Entropy (1959); theoretical works by Frank Kermode, John Barth, and Jean Baudrillard (amongst others) are also discussed. Chapter One traces the development of William S. Burroughs's apocalyptic sensibility …
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Garciá Márquez, magic realism and language as material practice
… Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the American, John Barth. In a well-known essay titled "The Literature of Replenishment", Barth names Garcia Marquez as the foremost postmodern writer. This is deceptive, I argue, since although in the essay Barth presents postmodernist fiction as a political …
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"Out is in" : Bret Easton Ellis und die Postmoderne
… und beginnt mit der Literatur. Diskutiert werden John Barth, der die Verbrauchtheit literarischer Methoden erkennt, Umberto Eco, der das Entstehen der Postmoderne aus der Avantgarde aufzeigt, Leslie Fiedler, der die Kluft zwischen Trivialliteratur und anspruchsvoller Literatur überbrücken möchte, …
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The sense of Conrad's endings: a study of the five major novels
… Laurence Sterne, on the one hand,and John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Jorge Luis Borges, on the other, fictionally assess the complex relationship between possible fact and probable fantasy, between realistic content and artistic form. In other words, these experimental novelists …