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Lost in the Funhouse was Barth's first book after the 1967 "The Literature of Exhaustion", [4] an essay in which Barth claimed that the traditional modes of realistic writing had been exhausted and no longer served the contemporary writer, but that the exhaustion of these techniques could be turned into a new source of inspiration.
Lost in the Funhouse (1968) by John Barth [30] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick [31] The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula Le Guin [32] Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut [11] [16] The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) by John Fowles [33] Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov [34]
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 ...
This he extended to a full-length book, The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’ (1997). [7] Zehme's other books include Intimate Strangers, Lost in the Funhouse, and Carson the Magnificent, which was completed posthumously by Zehme's “first-ever research assistant” Mike Thomas and published in 2024. [7] [8] [9]
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This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humorous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming.
The Sot-Weed Factor is a 1960 novel by the American writer John Barth.The novel marks the beginning of Barth's literary postmodernism. The Sot-Weed Factor takes its title from the poem The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland.
A semiautobiographical narrative takes up two of the four books of Gray's Lanark. In John Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy, the Camera Eye sections add up to a modernist autobiographical Künstlerroman. John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of short stories that are often read as a postmodernist Künstlerroman.