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- catalog abstract "On Fridays, John Barth abandons life in the city and heads for his Chesapeake Bay retreat, where he duly exchanges his weekday fiction muse for a nonfiction one. Fridays have become a liberating time, Barth says, to "discover what I thought about some subject or other, before reconfronting the vacated ways and laying the keel for the next substantial fiction project." What emerges from these thoughtful adventures are witty essays, literary and otherwise, the tracks of an original and incisive mind. Ten years ago Barth published his first nonfiction collection, The Friday Book, to critical acclaim. Now, in Further Fridays, his life's "cardinal pursuits" - writing, reading, thinking, and teaching - give rise to a luminous range of creative musings. Barth shifts easily between the humorous and the erudite; his imagination draws his from postmodern fiction and chaos theory to memory, the arabesque, and the nature of imagination itself. Many of these ruminations, including his celebrated "It's a Long Story: Maximalism Reconsidered," have previously appeared in various periodicals. Others - whether in the form of essays, lectures, or addresses - are small masterpieces, never before published. Each is a journey, but never quite the one you expected.".
- catalog contributor b8076007.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Many of these ruminations, including his celebrated "It's a Long Story: Maximalism Reconsidered," have previously appeared in various periodicals. Others - whether in the form of essays, lectures, or addresses - are small masterpieces, never before published. Each is a journey, but never quite the one you expected.".
- catalog description "On Fridays, John Barth abandons life in the city and heads for his Chesapeake Bay retreat, where he duly exchanges his weekday fiction muse for a nonfiction one. Fridays have become a liberating time, Barth says, to "discover what I thought about some subject or other, before reconfronting the vacated ways and laying the keel for the next substantial fiction project." What emerges from these thoughtful adventures are witty essays, literary and otherwise, the tracks of an original and incisive mind. Ten years ago Barth published his first nonfiction collection, The Friday Book, to critical acclaim. Now, in Further Fridays, his life's "cardinal pursuits" - writing, reading, thinking, and teaching - give rise to a luminous range of creative musings. Barth shifts easily between the humorous and the erudite; his imagination draws his from postmodern fiction and chaos theory to memory, the arabesque, and the nature of imagination itself.".
- catalog description "Teacher -- Can it be taught? -- The Spanish connection -- The limits of imagination -- A few words about minimalism -- It's a long story : Maximalism reconsidered -- It's a short story -- It goes without saying -- Postmodernism revisited -- A body of words -- Very like an elephant : reality versus realism -- "Still farther south" : some notes on Poe's Pym -- Kenosis : "I think it's trying to tell us something" -- Borges and I : a mini-memoir -- Once upon a time : storytelling explained -- Goose art, or, The aesthetic ecology of Chesapeake Bay -- "Jack and Jill" : an exegetical aria -- Browsing -- Ad lib libraries and the coastline measurement problem : a reminiscence -- Four forewords: The floating opera and the end of the road ; The sot-weed factor ; Giles goat-boy ; Lost in the farmhouse -- 4 1/2 lectures : the Stuttgart seminars on postmodernism, chaos theory, and the romantic arabesque: 1. PM/CT/RA : an underview ; 2 . Postmodernism visited: a professional novelist's amateur review ; 3. The arabesque ; 4. Chaos theory : postmod science, literary model ; 4 1/2. PM/CT/RA : "So what?" or "Ah, so!"? -- Inconclusion : the novel in the next century.".
- catalog extent "x, 377 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0316083240 :".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Little, Brown and Co.,".
- catalog subject "814/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Barth, John, 1930-".
- catalog subject "Essays.".
- catalog subject "PS3552.A75 F87 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Teacher -- Can it be taught? -- The Spanish connection -- The limits of imagination -- A few words about minimalism -- It's a long story : Maximalism reconsidered -- It's a short story -- It goes without saying -- Postmodernism revisited -- A body of words -- Very like an elephant : reality versus realism -- "Still farther south" : some notes on Poe's Pym -- Kenosis : "I think it's trying to tell us something" -- Borges and I : a mini-memoir -- Once upon a time : storytelling explained -- Goose art, or, The aesthetic ecology of Chesapeake Bay -- "Jack and Jill" : an exegetical aria -- Browsing -- Ad lib libraries and the coastline measurement problem : a reminiscence -- Four forewords: The floating opera and the end of the road ; The sot-weed factor ; Giles goat-boy ; Lost in the farmhouse -- 4 1/2 lectures : the Stuttgart seminars on postmodernism, chaos theory, and the romantic arabesque: 1. PM/CT/RA : an underview ; 2 . Postmodernism visited: a professional novelist's amateur review ; 3. The arabesque ; 4. Chaos theory : postmod science, literary model ; 4 1/2. PM/CT/RA : "So what?" or "Ah, so!"? -- Inconclusion : the novel in the next century.".
- catalog title "Further Fridays : essays, lectures, and other nonfiction, 1984-94 / John Barth.".
- catalog type "text".