John Barth (1930–2024)
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John Barth taught for many years in the writing program at Johns Hopkins University, and he lives in Chestertown, Maryland. (Publisher Provided) John Simmons Barth was born on May 27, 1930 in Cambridge, Maryland. He is considered to be one of the American writers who introduced a U.S. audience to mostrar más experimental fiction. Barth began as a conventional novelist, exploring existential themes of suicide in The Floating Opera (1956) and the complexity of love in The End of the Road (1958). By the end of the 1950s, however, he was exploring less realistic techniques to keep the reader from being pulled into the story, and thus to make larger points. Those techniques include parody, which Barth first used in The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), to mock the style of the eighteenth-century picaresque novel, and Giles Goat-Boy (1966), which depicts the world as a giant university. In Chimera (1972), for which he won the National Book Award, Barth applied his method to retell classical myths. His later works include Letters (1979), in which Barth himself appears as a character, and Sabbatical (1982), the story of a woman college professor and her novelist husband, both of whom address the reader and author. Barth's other novels include The Tidewater Tales (1987) and The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (1991). For most of his career as a writer, he has also been a professor of English, teaching at Pennsylvania State University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and The Johns Hopkins University. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de John Barth
Lost in the Funhouse, Giles Goat Boy, Chimera, The End of the Road, The Floating Opera (1978) 10 copias
Barth John 1 copia
The Literature of Exhaustion (in) The Atlantic Monthly / Volume 220, Number 2 / August 1967 (1967) 1 copia
Toga Party 1 copia
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For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contribuidor — 458 copias, 3 reseñas
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Contribuidor — 184 copias, 2 reseñas
The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood… (2007) — Contribuidor — 89 copias
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 68 copias, 1 reseña
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 copias, 1 reseña
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Antaeus No. 35, Autumn 1979 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Barth, John
- Nombre legal
- Barth, John Simmons
- Otros nombres
- Barth, Jack
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1930-05-27
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2024-04-02
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Cambridge, Maryland, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Chestertown, Maryland, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Cambridge, Maryland, USA (birth)
State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Chestertown, Maryland, USA - Educación
- Johns Hopkins University (BA|1951)
Johns Hopkins University (MA|1952)
The Juilliard School, New York - Ocupaciones
- academic
novelist
musician (drummer)
professor - Relaciones
- Barth, John, Jr. (son)
- Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1974)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974)
Pennsylvania State University
State University of New York, Buffalo
Johns Hopkins University - Premios y honores
- National Institute of Arts and Letters grant in literature (1966)
The Brandeis University creative arts award in fiction (1965)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (1997)
The Rockefeller Foundation grant in fiction (1965-66)
Lannan Literary Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1998)
Enoch Pratt Society Lifetime Achievement in Letters (1999) (mostrar todos 9)
PEN/Malamud Award (1998)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1966)
National Book Award (1973)
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #2,072
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 210
- Idiomas
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- Favorito
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