Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 2K views

    The Literature of Exhaustion - John Barth

    Uploaded by

    Iosua Beniamin Dirla
    The essay discusses how modernist literature in the 1960s responded to a sense of exhaustion with established forms by pushing narrative conventions to their limits through metafiction and parody. Barth argues that while modernism exhausted traditional storytelling, postmodernism found a way to continue exploring through self-conscious play and open-ended experimentation rather than trying to find new truths or meanings.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    The Literature of Exhaustion - John Barth

    Uploaded by

    Iosua Beniamin Dirla
    2K views15 pages
    The essay discusses how modernist literature in the 1960s responded to a sense of exhaustion with established forms by pushing narrative conventions to their limits through metafiction and parody. Barth argues that while modernism exhausted traditional storytelling, postmodernism found a way to continue exploring through self-conscious play and open-ended experimentation rather than trying to find new truths or meanings.

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The essay discusses how modernist literature in the 1960s responded to a sense of exhaustion with established forms by pushing narrative conventions to their limits through metafiction and parody. Barth argues that while modernism exhausted traditional storytelling, postmodernism found a way to continue exploring through self-conscious play and open-ended experimentation rather than trying to find new truths or meanings.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    2K views15 pages

    The Literature of Exhaustion - John Barth

    Uploaded by

    Iosua Beniamin Dirla
    The essay discusses how modernist literature in the 1960s responded to a sense of exhaustion with established forms by pushing narrative conventions to their limits through metafiction and parody. Barth argues that while modernism exhausted traditional storytelling, postmodernism found a way to continue exploring through self-conscious play and open-ended experimentation rather than trying to find new truths or meanings.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    You are on page 1of 15

    The Literature of Exhaustion by John Barth from The Friday Book: Essays and Other Non-Fiction.

    London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1984.

    You might also like