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May 28, 2021 · When Ambrose is lost in the carnival funhouse, he develops this knowledge. Straying into an old, forgotten part of the funhouse, he becomes separated from the mainstream—the funhouse represents the world for lovers—and has fantasies of death and suicide, recalling the “negative resolve” of the sperm cell from “Night-Sea Journey.”
May 19, 2023 · Whether you have read Lost in the Funhouse, its influence is everywhere. Every subsequent metafictional work, from House of Leaves to BioShock, has roots trailing back to the funhouse. Lamentably ...
In her lecture on John Barth’s collection of stories Lost in the Funhouse, Professor Amy Hungerford delves beyond the superficial pleasures and frustrations of Barth’s oft-cited metafictional masterwork to illuminate the profound commitment to language that his narrative risks entail. Foremost among Barth’s concerns, Hungerford argues, is the multi-faceted relationship between language ...
Easily one of the best short-story collections I have ever read. Maybe even the best. This doesn't mean that all the stories in the book are equally entertaining, but it does mean that the best stories are so good they impart a terrific momentum to the collection as a whole, carrying it forward beyond all negative criticism, at least in my view.
May 20, 2017. Lost In The Funhouse; Fiction For Print, Tape, Live Voice is John Barth's response to a gauntlet Marshall McLuhan was throwing down back in the heady days of the sixties regarding the immanent demise of the work of art as printed text and the subsequent decline in the fortunes of the Gutenberg family.
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Sep 18, 2011 · A newcomer to watch: fresh, funny, and tough. Share your opinion of this book. No American writer under forty is as lavishly admired as John Barth. His two major novels, The Sot-Weed Factor, a parody of the historical romance, and Giles Goat-Boy, comic variations on technology and scientific myth, are extraordinary displays of linguistic ...
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Aug 19, 2024 · The year ‘‘Lost in the Funhouse’’ was published, 1967, marked a particularly turbulent era in American social history. Barth, as both a writer and an intellectual with a faculty position ...
