John Barth’s On with the Story: Stories and the Transformation of American Postmodernist Poetics

Victoria LİPİNA-BEREZKİNA

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John Barth’s On with the Story: Stories and the Transformation of American Postmodernist Poetics

Yazarlar:

Victoria LİPİNA-BEREZKİNA

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1999 Issue 10, pp.5-16

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/1999

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735202

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İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

“Endings, endings everywhere; apocalypses large and small.” It is with this subtle  rhythmic allusion to a classical masterpiece  Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime  of the Ancient Mariner”  that John Barth, theoretician and practitioner of American  postmodernism, starts his latest book On with the Story: Stories  1996 . The booklength story opens by creating an ironic situation of the “Last Lecture,” with the  writer meditating wittily on current theories forecasting the death of  postmodernism, these “apocalypses large and small”  15 , and on all types of  “endisms”—from the end of the artist to the end of the world. He is afraid, as John  Keats was, that “he might cease to be before his pen had gleaned his teeming brain”   16 . The writer’s new claim is “to rebegin”  14 . And this is not only a linguistic  joke.

Makale detayları

John Barth’s On with the Story: Stories and the Transformation of American Postmodernist Poetics

Yazarlar: Victoria LİPİNA-BEREZKİNA

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1999 Issue 10, pp.5-16

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 9/1999

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735202

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Victoria LİPİNA-BEREZKİNA

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1999 Issue 10, pp.5-16

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/1999

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735202

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606