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Barth, John (Simmons)

(1930–  ) writer, educator; born in Cambridge, Md. He graduated from Johns Hopkins, where, during a long academic career, he joined the English faculty (1973). His novels, some set on Maryland's Eastern Shore, were distinctive for their formal ingenuity and an existential questioning bordering on nihilism. They include The End of the Road (1958), Chimera (1972, National Book Award), and Tidewater Tales (1988). A major exception was his second novel, The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), a long, playful parody written in the style of an 18th century novel.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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Turski, Marcin 1995 "John Barth's playful treatment of history in The sot-weed factor", Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 29: 165-172.
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The archetypal modernist work is a failure, perhaps like John Barth's short story, "Lost in the Funhouse," which (successfully?) depicts the impossibility of writing a successful short story.
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When you've got a CEO as willing to jump on an airplane as Johnson Controls' John Barth, no corner of the world is safe from his inspection.
For, as John Barth writes in his essay "A Few Words about Minimalism," "There truly are more ways than one to heaven.
This one came not from the pen of John Barth or Philip Roth or David Foster Wallace, nor from one of our era's preening post-ironists, but from Helen Fielding, creator of the wildly popular Bridget Jones phenomenon.
(1.) In June 2003, at the point of compiling this issue of Diogenes, the same four questions were posed to Denis Sinor, Gay McDougall, Earl Shorris and John Barth. Their responses are published here as Interludes 1-4.
In other news, the board of directors has elected John Barth, who serves as president and chief executive officer of the company, to chairman of the board, effective January 1.
Coming Soon!!!,by John Barth (AtlanticBooks pounds 8.99)
His is a neo-Marxian deconstruction of the dynamic interplay between longing and repression, as manifested in selected novels of Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Nathanael West, Ernest Hemingway, and John Barth.
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