John Barth’s On with the Story: Stories and the Transformation of American Postmodernist Poetics
Keywords:
John Barth, On with the Story: Stories, Postmodernism, American Literature, Truth in Art, NovelAbstract
This article examines John Barth's book On with the Story: Stories as a literary manifesto of postmodernism at the end of the century. The author argues that Barth's work represents a "rebeginning" of the fundamental quest for Truth in art, and discusses how it challenges conventional views on the death of postmodernism and the future.
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