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• catalog abstract "During the sixties and seventies, the fictional "reinventions" of John Barth, along with his misread and influential essay "The Literature of Exhaustion," established the comic novelist as a leading practitioner and theorist of what was then coming to be called postmodern literature. In more recent years, however, Barth's reputation has been called into question within the ongoing critical debate over the criterion of "originality" and the status of literary repetition, imitation, and parody. In her spirited defense of Barth, Patricia Tobin employs Harold Bloom's theory of belatedness to confront and explode this issue. For Bloom, the later the artist the greater the burden of the past against which he must rebel and the more hopeless his task. However, Tobin argues, Barth revels in his belatedness and celebrates the opportunity to survey a rich literary past and to bring back to life its dead forms, genres, and styles by completing, fulfilling, and "exhausting" them. Not a retrospective and negative anxiety of influence, then, but a wholly prospective and positive anxiety of continuance has propelled Barth through a distinguished career. Throughout, Tobin elaborates the conjunctions and disjunctions between Bloom and Barth with surprising results. Most notable, perhaps, is her examination of how Bloom's model of a "map of misreading" helps to elucidate, and even predict, the ways in which Barth sets each new novel in antithetical relation to the one before. Along the way, much is said about modernism and postmodernism, repetition and difference, and what it means poetically and willfully to intend a career. John Barth and the Anxiety of Continuance will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary American fiction and critical theory.".
• catalog contributor b3624174.
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "During the sixties and seventies, the fictional "reinventions" of John Barth, along with his misread and influential essay "The Literature of Exhaustion," established the comic novelist as a leading practitioner and theorist of what was then coming to be called postmodern literature. In more recent years, however, Barth's reputation has been called into question within the ongoing critical debate over the criterion of "originality" and the status of literary repetition, imitation, and parody. In her spirited defense of Barth, Patricia Tobin employs Harold Bloom's theory of belatedness to confront and explode this issue. For Bloom, the later the artist the greater the burden of the past against which he must rebel and the more hopeless his task. However, Tobin argues, Barth revels in his belatedness and celebrates the opportunity to survey a rich literary past and to bring back to life its dead forms, genres, and styles by completing, fulfilling, and "exhausting" them. Not a retrospective and negative anxiety of influence, then, but a wholly prospective and positive anxiety of continuance has propelled Barth through a distinguished career. Throughout, Tobin elaborates the conjunctions and disjunctions between Bloom and Barth with surprising results. Most notable, perhaps, is her examination of how Bloom's model of a "map of misreading" helps to elucidate, and even predict, the ways in which Barth sets each new novel in antithetical relation to the one before. Along the way, much is said about modernism and postmodernism, repetition and difference, and what it means poetically and willfully to intend a career. John Barth and the Anxiety of Continuance will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary American fiction and critical theory.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: creative revisionism as career -- The floating opera (1956): beginning with almost-death -- The end of the road (1958): at the Nihilist Terminal -- The sot-weed factor (1960): discontinuity through repetition -- Giles goat-boy (1966): the heroic career, beyond Oedipus -- Lost in the funhouse (1968) and Chimera (1972): the hero minors in metaphor -- LETTERS (1979): funerary fare-three-wells -- Sabbatical, a romance (1982): literalizing the lateral -- The tidewater tales (1987): conjugality's cartography -- The last voyage of somebody the sailor (1991): reflowering the deflorated virgin.".
• catalog extent "187 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "John Barth and the anxiety of continuance.".
• catalog identifier "0812230930".
• catalog isFormatOf "John Barth and the anxiety of continuance.".
• catalog isPartOf "Penn studies in contemporary American fiction".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
• catalog relation "John Barth and the anxiety of continuance.".
• catalog subject "813/.54 20".
• catalog subject "Anxiety in literature.".
• catalog subject "Barth, John Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Barth, John, 1930- Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "PS3552.A75 Z92 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: creative revisionism as career -- The floating opera (1956): beginning with almost-death -- The end of the road (1958): at the Nihilist Terminal -- The sot-weed factor (1960): discontinuity through repetition -- Giles goat-boy (1966): the heroic career, beyond Oedipus -- Lost in the funhouse (1968) and Chimera (1972): the hero minors in metaphor -- LETTERS (1979): funerary fare-three-wells -- Sabbatical, a romance (1982): literalizing the lateral -- The tidewater tales (1987): conjugality's cartography -- The last voyage of somebody the sailor (1991): reflowering the deflorated virgin.".
• catalog title "John Barth and the anxiety of continuance / Patricia Tobin.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".