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Download or read book The Sot-Weed Factor written by John Barth and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Barth's most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is "one of the most diverting...to roam the world since Candide." "A feast. Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, OK, yes, long-winded) this satire of the 18th-century picaresque novel-think Fielding's Tom Jones or Sterne's Tristram Shandy -is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence as it makes its unsteady way in the world. It's the late 17th century and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, dutiful son and determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco (or "sot weed") plantation. He is also eventually given to believe that he has been commissioned by the third Lord Baltimore to write an epic poem, The Marylandiad. But things are not always what they seem. Actually, things are almost never what they seem. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many perils. Pirates, Indians, shrewd prostitutes, armed insurrectionists - Cooke endures them all, plus assaults on his virginity from both women and men. Barth's language is impossibly rich, a wickedly funny take on old English rhetoric and American self-appraisals. For good measure he throws in stories within stories, including the funniest retelling of the Pocahontas tale -revealed to us in the "secret" journals of Capt. John Smith - that anyone has ever dared to tell." —Time Magazine
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On with the Story written by John Barth and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the venerable literary device of the bedtime story, which links fictions as different as The Arabian Nights and Charlotte's Web, John Barth ingeniously interweaves stories from an ongoing, high-spirited but deadly serious nocturnal game of tale-telling by a more or less desperate loving couple vacationing at their "last resort". As Scheherazade spun out her bedtime stories to save her life, the narrator of On with the Story spins out his to postpone The End, and to explore en route - wittily, mournfully, tenderly - love in modern life and postmodern literature. As the narrative cycles through the lifescapes of his subjects' stories, Barth affords a view both panoramic and microscopic of our own landscape. With eye and pen both sharp and beautiful he depicts love ranging from the obsessively puppy through the sophisticatedly fatigued, the delusionally murderous, even the quantum-physical, to the superbly fulfilled.
Download or read book Coming Soon!!! written by John Barth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth spoofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of writers who have followed his literary trailblazing. Coming Soon!!! is the tale of two writers: an older, retiring novelist setting out to write his last work and a young, aspiring writer of hypertext intent on toppling his master. In the heat of their rivalry, the writers navigate, and sometimes stumble over, the cultural fault lines between print and electronic fiction, mentor and mentee, postmodernism and modernism.
Book Synopsis An Explorer's Guide to Karl Barth by : David Guretzki
Download or read book An Explorer's Guide to Karl Barth written by David Guretzki and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone exploring a new territory knows the benefit of an experienced guide. A guide can make the difference between tiresome drudgery and a life-changing adventure. This is as true for exploring new thinkers and books as it is for places. If ever a theologian required a guide, it would be Karl Barth. His many writings have secured his place as the most significant theologian of the twentieth century. The massive Church Dogmatics alone spans over eight thousand pages and six million words. David Guretzki has been reading and teaching Barth for decades, and he has gathered numerous hints and notes along the way for how best to explore the writings of the Swiss theologian. Inside you will find frequently asked questions a glossary of key concepts and persons a tour guide to Barth's early writings tips on how to write a paper on Barth a guided tour to the Church Dogmatics Whether you are a first-time reader or a seasoned student, An Explorer's Guide to Karl Barth will give you the tools and tips to get the most out of your experience. Enjoy the journey! Books in the Explorer's Guide series are accessible guidebooks for those studying the great Christian texts and theologians from church history, helping readers explore the context in which these texts were written and navigate the rich yet complex terrain of Christian theology.
Download or read book Collected Stories written by John Barth and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth’s writing was not a response to the realistic fiction that characterized American literature at the time; it beckoned back to the founders of the novel: Cervantes, Rabelais, and Sterne, echoing their playfulness and reflecting the freedom inherent in the writing of fiction. This collection of Barth’s short fiction is a landmark event, bringing all of his previous collections together in one volume for the first time. Its occasion helps readers assess a remarkable lifetime’s work and represents an important chapter in the history of American literature. Dalkey Archive will reissue a number of Barth’s novels over the next few years, preserving his work for generations to come.
Book Synopsis John Barth and Postmodernism by : Berndt Clavier
Download or read book John Barth and Postmodernism written by Berndt Clavier and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Barth's eminence as a postmodernist is indisputable. However, much of the criticism dealing with his work is prompted by his own theories of «exhaustion» and subsequent «replenishment, » leaving his writing relatively untouched by theories of postmodernism in general. This book changes that by focusing on the relationship between Barth's aesthetic and the ideology critique of the historical avant-gardes, which were the first to mobilize art against itself and its institutional practices and demands. Examining Barth's metafictional parodies in the light of theories of space and subjectivity, Clavier engages the question of ideology critique in postmodernism by offering the montage as a possible model for understanding Barth's fiction. In such a light, postmodernism may well be perceived as a mimesis of reality, particularly a recognition of the collective nature of self and the world.
Book Synopsis The Sot-weed Factor, Or, A Voyage to Maryland : a Satyr : in which is Describ'd, the Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and Also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America ; in Burlesque Verse by : Ebenezer Cooke
Download or read book The Sot-weed Factor, Or, A Voyage to Maryland : a Satyr : in which is Describ'd, the Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and Also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America ; in Burlesque Verse written by Ebenezer Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1708 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Understanding John Barth by : Stanley Fogel
Download or read book Understanding John Barth written by Stanley Fogel and published by Columbia : University of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive guide to the major writings of John Barth - the author of The Floating Opera, The End of the Road, Chimera, The Tidewater Tales: A Novel and other works. With roots in the 20-century existential tradition, Barth sees human beings stripped of their beliefs in universal values and systems of belief - in God, tradition, reason or literary formulations. He is concerned about the kinds of choices that fulfill human and artistic potential and those that lead to failure, and he is equally concerned about how those choices affect the environment. Art, to him, shapes an awareness not only of literature itself but of self, culture and history, so he tries to review these areas against the grain.
Book Synopsis Reading Barth with Charity by : George Hunsinger
Download or read book Reading Barth with Charity written by George Hunsinger and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Barth and his legacy have dominated theology circles for over a decade. In this volume George Hunsinger, a world-renowned expert on Barth's theology, makes an authoritative contribution to the debate concerning Barth's trinitarian theology and doctrine of election. Hunsinger challenges a popular form of Barth interpretation pertaining to the Trinity, demonstrating that there is no major break in Barth's thought between the earlier and the later Barth of the Church Dogmatics. Hunsinger also discusses important issues in trinitarian theology and Christology that extend beyond the contemporary Barth debates. This major statement will be valued by professors and students of systematic theology, scholars, and readers of Barth.
Book Synopsis Lost in the Funhouse by : John Barth
Download or read book Lost in the Funhouse written by John Barth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.
Book Synopsis Finder: Voice by : Carla Speed McNeil
Download or read book Finder: Voice written by Carla Speed McNeil and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you find isn't nearly as important as what finds you . . . Since 1996, Finder has set the bar for science-fiction storytelling, with a lush, intricate world and compelling characters. Now, Carla Speed McNeil's Eisner Award-winning series comes to Dark Horse with the original graphic novel Voice. In a society defined by its intricate network of clans, Rachel Grosvenor has grown up an outcast, straddling worlds. Now, her quest for admission to a highly exclusive clan sends Rachel spiraling into the dark underbelly of Anvard and a paradox that holds the key to her future: How do you find a Finder? * Rising star Carla Speed McNeil has been nominated for seventeen industry awards, winning five times, since 1998! * Voice won the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Webcomic. * "Completely fascinating." -Warren Ellis "Finder is, bar none, the best SF comic being published today." -Strange Horizons
Author :David Morrell Publisher :University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :224 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book John Barth written by David Morrell and published by University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cruft of Fiction by : David Letzler
Download or read book The Cruft of Fiction written by David Letzler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the strange appeal of big books? The mega-novel, a genre of erudite tomes with encyclopedic scope, has attracted wildly varied responses, from fanatical devotion to trenchant criticism. Looking at intimidating mega-novel masterpieces from The Making of Americans to 2666, David Letzler explores reader responses to all the seemingly random, irrelevant, pointless, and derailing elements that comprise these mega-novels, elements that he labels "cruft" after the computer science term for junk code. In The Cruft of Fiction, Letzler suggests that these books are useful tools to help us understand the relationship between reading and attention. While mega-novel text is often intricately meaningful or experimental, sometimes it is just excessive and pointless. On the other hand, mega-novels also contain text that, though appearing to be cruft, turns out to be quite important. Letzler posits that this cruft requires readers to develop a sophisticated method of attentional modulation, allowing one to subtly distinguish between text requiring focused attention and text that must be skimmed or even skipped to avoid processing failures. The Cruft of Fiction shows how the attentional maturation prompted by reading mega-novels can help manage the information overload that increasingly characterizes contemporary life.
Download or read book Chimera written by John Barth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In CHIMERAJohn Barth injects his signature wit into the tales of Scheherezade of the Thousand and One Nights, Perseus, the slayer of Medusa, and Bellerophon, who tamed the winged horse Pegasus. In a book that the Washington Post called "stylishly maned, tragically songful, and serpentinely elegant,” Barth retells these tales from varying perspectives, examining the myths’ relationship to reality and their resonance with the contemporary world. A winner of the National Book Award, this feisty, witty, sometimes bawdy book provoked Playboy to comment, "There’s every chance in the world that John Barth is a genius.”
Book Synopsis The Complete Guide to Fencing by : Berndt Barth
Download or read book The Complete Guide to Fencing written by Berndt Barth and published by Meyer & Meyer Sport. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teaching and reference book covers the most important concepts of training theory in the sport of fencing and their methodological application. Supplemented by the general teaching methods and experiences of Germany's most successful trainers, findings, theories, and methods of training, science-oriented basic concepts are integrated here with application-oriented editing. Through the collaboration of internationally renowned scientists and long-time successful trainers, a fencing book was created that is unique in fencing literature. From the Contents: • Essential information regarding terminology • Basic methods of fencing training • Youth training • Aspects of sports medicine in fencing • Foil fencing • Epée fencing • Saber fencing • International development trends in fencing
Book Synopsis How to Read Karl Barth by : George Hunsinger
Download or read book How to Read Karl Barth written by George Hunsinger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study decodes the most cryptic and elusive patterns of Karl Barth's dialectic. Hunsinger not only offers a new and authoritative interpretation of Barth's mature theology, but also places Barth's work in relation to contemporary discussions of truth, justified belief, double agency, and religious pluralism. Through a fresh and compelling reading of Church Dogmatics, Hunsinger offers a new account of the coherence of that work as a whole.
