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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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 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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