Narrative Self Reflexivity And Authorship In The Short Story Lost In The Funhouse By John Barth
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Author | : Amal Mejri |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2020-07-29 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3346215016 |
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Literature, Faculté des Lettres, des Arts et des Humanités de la Manouba, language: English, abstract: This paper takes a close look at Barth’s metafictional short story “Lost in the Funhouse” (1968) which depicts a thirteen-year old boy named Ambrose getting lost in a funhouse on a beach boardwalk. Through the internal musings of this self-conscious adolescent and those of an anonymous self-critical and even self-deprecating narrator whose presence overwhelms the narrative, Barth thematizes the act of writing, puts into question the validity of literary conventions, and directly confronts the problematic issues of selfhood and authorship in the postmodern era.
Author | : John Barth |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-06-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804152500 |
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • John Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction exploring themes of purpose and the meaning of existence. "[Barth] ran riot over literary rules and conventions, even as he displayed, with meticulous discipline, mastery of and respect for them." —The New York Times From its opening story, "Frame-Tale"--printed sideways and designed to be cut out by the reader and twisted into a never-ending Mobius strip--to the much-anthologized "Life-Story," whose details are left to the reader to "fill in the blank," Barth's acclaimed collection challenges our ideas of what fiction can do. Highlights include the Homerian story-wthin-a-story-within-a-story (times seven) of "Menalaiad,' and "Night-Sea Journey," a first-person account of a confused human sperm on its way to fertilize an egg. All of the characters in Lost in the Funhouse are searching, in one way or another, for their purpose and the meaning of their existence. Together, their stories form a kaleidescope of exuberant metafictional inventiveness.
Author | : Mahi Nazari |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2021-02-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3346353176 |
Essay from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A, Islamic Azad University, language: English, abstract: This essay examines the concept of language used in John Barth's short story "Lost in the Funhouse". It starts off by giving a quick introductory overview over the author before proceeding to the analysis of the language used itself. A specific focus is therein put on the topic of how the language reflects postmodern self-reflexivity.
Author | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1410351513 |
Author | : Hans Bertens |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134928653 |
At last! Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were afraid to ask. Hans Bertens' Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witty and accessible guide for the bemused student. In clear and straightforward but always elegant prose, Bertens sets out the interdisciplinary aspects, the critical debates and the key theorists of postmodernism. He also explains, in thoughtful and illuminating language, the relationship between postmodernism and poststructuralism, and that between modernism and postmodernism. An enjoyable and indispensible text for today's student.
Author | : John Barth |
Publisher | : Deep Vellum Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1015 |
Release | : 2015-10-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1628972122 |
When John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth’s writing was not a response to the realistic fiction that characterized American literature at the time; it beckoned back to the founders of the novel: Cervantes, Rabelais, and Sterne, echoing their playfulness and reflecting the freedom inherent in the writing of fiction. This collection of Barth’s short fiction is a landmark event, bringing all of his previous collections together in one volume for the first time. Its occasion helps readers assess a remarkable lifetime’s work and represents an important chapter in the history of American literature. Dalkey Archive will reissue a number of Barth’s novels over the next few years, preserving his work for generations to come.
Author | : John Barth |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780618131709 |
In CHIMERAJohn Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called "stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant,” Barth retells these tales from varying perspectives, examining the myths’ relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world. A winner of the National Book Award, this feisty, witty, sometimes bawdy book provoked Playboy to comment, "There’s every chance in the world that John Barth is a genius.”
Author | : Berndt Clavier |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780820463858 |
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.
Author | : Judith Fletcher |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191079804 |
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic journey to the underworld. Covering a range of genres - including novels, comics, and children's culture, by authors such as Elena Ferrante, Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, A. S. Byatt, Toni Morrison, and Anne Patchett - it reveals how an enduring fascination with life after death, and fantasies of accessing the world of the dead while we are still alive, manifest themselves in myriad and varied re-imaginings of the ancient descent myth. The volume begins with a detailed overview of the use of the myth by ancient authors such as Homer, Aristophanes, Vergil, and Ovid, before exploring the ways in which the narrative of a return trip to Hades by Odysseus, Aeneas, Orpheus, and Persephone can be manipulated by contemporary storytellers to fit themes of social marginality and alterity, postmodern rebellion, the position of female authors in the literary canon, and the dislocation endured by refugees, exiles, and diasporic populations. It also argues that citations of classical underworld stories can disrupt and challenge the literary canon by using media - such as comic books, children's culture, or rock music - not conventionally associated with high culture.
Author | : Herbert Grabes |
Publisher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : 9783823341673 |