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    John Simmons Barth (/bɑːrθ/; May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly...
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    Karl Barth (/bɑːrt, bɑːrθ/; German: [bart]; (1886-05-10)10 May 1886 – (1968-12-10)10 December 1968) was a Swiss Reformed theologian. Barth is best known...
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    noted American postmodern novelist John Barth. Written for the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins, which Barth himself later ran, The Shirt of Nessus...
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  • John Barth (1930–2024) was an American writer. John Barth may also refer to: John Barth (politician) (born 1826), German-born American politician John...
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    Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Philip K. Dick, Kathy Acker, and John Barth. Postmodernists often challenge authorities, which has been seen as a...
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  • John Barth (born December 28, 1826) was a German-born American politician. He emigrated to Ozaukee County, Wisconsin in 1853. A Democrat, Barth represented...
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  • Jerry Abbott, 81, American songwriter and record producer (Pantera). John Barth, 93, American writer (The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the...
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  • Giles Goat-Boy (category Novels by John Barth)
    Giles Goat-Boy (1966) is the fourth novel by American writer John Barth. It is a metafictional comic novel in which the universe is portrayed as a university...
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    the dysfunctional narrator of his novel The End of the Road (1958), John Barth commented that "he is supposed to remind you first of Little Jack Horner...
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  • and Augustus shared the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with John Barth and Chimera, the first time the award was split, and the only one of Williams's...
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  • The Sot-Weed Factor (novel) (category Novels by John Barth)
    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...
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  • particularly prominent in the 1960s, with works such as Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, "The Babysitter" and "The Magic Poker"...
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  • The Literature of Exhaustion is a 1967 essay by the American novelist John Barth sometimes considered to be the manifesto of postmodernism. The essay was...
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  • Lost in the Funhouse (category Works by John Barth)
    author John Barth. The postmodern stories are extremely self-conscious and self-reflexive, and are considered to exemplify metafiction. Though Barth's reputation...
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  • Chimera is a 1972 fantasy novel written by American writer John Barth, composed of three loosely connected novellas. The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid...
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  • 81, country music songwriter and record producer (Pantera) (b. 1942) John Barth, 93, writer (The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the Funhouse)...
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  • The Floating Opera (category Novels by John Barth)
    Opera is a novel by American writer John Barth, first published in 1956 and significantly revised in 1967. Barth's first published work, the existentialist...
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  • Barth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Auguste Barth (1834–1916), French orientalist Belle Barth (1911–1971), Jewish-American entertainer...
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  • of an earlier age—for example, in his 1960 novel The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth writes in an 18th-century style. Archaic words or expressions may have...
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    1945), Irish writer John Barth (born 1930), American writer John Batki (born 1942), American short story writer, poet, and translator John Tucker Battle (1902–1962)...
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  • ludicrous, tragic or comic. Fabulating authors include Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, and Ishmael Reed. Abrams...
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  • illustrator (continued Babar the Elephant), dies at age 98. April 2: John Barth, American fiction writer, dies at age 93. Portals:  Literature  Books...
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    Alexandre Dumas' 1845 novel Queen Margot. Postmodern novelists such as John Barth and Thomas Pynchon operate with even more freedom, mixing historical characters...
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  • John Barth (April 4, 1927 – October 16, 2004) was an American football and basketball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at University...
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    such as J. P. Donleavy, Edward Albee, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Vladimir Nabokov, Bruce Jay Friedman himself, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline...
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    One Thousand and One Nights (category Books illustrated by John Tenniel)
    own works. Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, Goethe, Walter Scott...
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  • Burroughs The Tin Drum (1959) by Günter Grass The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) by John Barth Catch-22 (1961) by Joseph Heller Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov...
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    Eco, Italo Calvino, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, John Hawkes, William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Robert Coover, Jean Rhys, Donald Barthelme,...
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    (July, 1979). His judgments of contemporary authors—including John Updike, John Barth and other American authors—harmed his reputation among fellow writers...
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  • Letter (born 1978), German serial killer LETTERS, an 1979 novel by John Barth John Letters, a Scottish manufacturer of golf clubs Letters (sculpture)...
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