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... 56 KB (6,465 words) - 19:05, 12 April 2024 |
Shirt of Nessus (section John Barth) noted American postmodern novelist John Barth. Written for the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins, which Barth himself later ran, The Shirt of Nessus... 8 KB (1,131 words) - 17:20, 3 January 2024 |
John Barth (1930–2024) was an American writer. John Barth may also refer to: John Barth (politician) (born 1826), German-born American politician John... 321 bytes (71 words) - 18:36, 28 April 2024 |
John Barth (born December 28, 1826) was a German-born American politician. He emigrated to Ozaukee County, Wisconsin in 1853. A Democrat, Barth represented... 1 KB (83 words) - 18:25, 28 April 2024 |
Jerry Abbott, 81, American songwriter and record producer (Pantera). John Barth, 93, American writer (The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the... 184 KB (13,775 words) - 05:24, 30 April 2024 |
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... 27 KB (3,035 words) - 15:26, 20 October 2023 |
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... 24 KB (2,381 words) - 18:54, 16 April 2024 |
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... 11 KB (1,423 words) - 13:02, 28 April 2024 |
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... 23 KB (3,131 words) - 11:48, 29 April 2024 |
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"... 22 KB (2,947 words) - 18:52, 24 April 2024 |
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... 3 KB (302 words) - 03:27, 26 June 2023 |
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... 17 KB (1,790 words) - 16:40, 15 April 2024 |
Chimera is a 1972 fantasy novel written by American writer John Barth, composed of three loosely connected novellas. The novellas are Dunyazadiad, Perseid... 9 KB (1,141 words) - 15:32, 11 April 2024 |
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)... 175 KB (13,944 words) - 11:02, 29 April 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,000 words) - 04:54, 30 August 2023 |
Barth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Auguste Barth (1834–1916), French orientalist Belle Barth (1911–1971), Jewish-American entertainer... 2 KB (296 words) - 16:13, 4 March 2024 |
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... 8 KB (996 words) - 16:02, 11 April 2024 |
ludicrous, tragic or comic. Fabulating authors include Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, and Ishmael Reed. Abrams... 3 KB (247 words) - 13:37, 18 December 2023 |
illustrator (continued Babar the Elephant), dies at age 98. April 2: John Barth, American fiction writer, dies at age 93. Portals: Literature Books... 6 KB (402 words) - 04:19, 19 April 2024 |
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... 4 KB (85 words) - 06:40, 30 October 2023 |
such as J. P. Donleavy, Edward Albee, Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Vladimir Nabokov, Bruce Jay Friedman himself, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline... 44 KB (5,007 words) - 13:52, 29 April 2024 |
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... 106 KB (13,120 words) - 10:16, 15 April 2024 |
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... 45 KB (3,826 words) - 21:10, 27 April 2024 |
Eco, Italo Calvino, Pier Vittorio Tondelli, John Hawkes, William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Robert Coover, Jean Rhys, Donald Barthelme,... 56 KB (5,706 words) - 22:03, 24 April 2024 |
Letter (born 1978), German serial killer LETTERS, an 1979 novel by John Barth John Letters, a Scottish manufacturer of golf clubs Letters (sculpture)... 3 KB (398 words) - 08:24, 2 February 2024 |