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John Simmons Barth (/ b ɑːr θ /; [1] May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include The Sot-Weed Factor, a whimsical retelling of Maryland's colonial history; Giles Goat-Boy, a satirical fantasy in which a university is a microcosm of the ...
John Barth (1930–2024) was an American writer. John Barth may also refer to: John Barth (politician) (born 1826), German-born American politician; John Barth (American football) (1927–2004), American football player; John F. Barth (1874–1947), American composer
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In the 1950s and 1960s, contributors to the discussion included Gore Vidal, Roland Barthes, and John Barth. [3] Ronald Sukenick wrote the story The Death of the Novel in 1969. In 1954, Wolfgang Kayser argued that the death of the narrator would lead to the death of the novel—a view that has since been contested by many people.
Chimera is a 1972 fantasy novel written by American writer John Barth, composed of three loosely connected novellas.The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid and Bellerophoniad, whose titles refer eponymously to the mythical characters Dunyazad, Perseus and Bellerophon (slayer of the mythical Chimera).
John Barth, a postmodernist novelist who talks often about the label "postmodern", wrote an influential essay in 1967 called "The Literature of Exhaustion" and in 1980 published "The Literature of Replenishment" in order to clarify the earlier essay. "The Literature of Exhaustion" was about the need for a new era in literature after modernism ...
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