john barth

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Definition of john barth in English English dictionary

orig. John Simmons Barth, Jr. born May 27, 1930, Cambridge, Md., U.S. U.S. writer. Barth grew up on Maryland's eastern shore, the locale of much of his writing, and from 1953 he taught principally at Johns Hopkins University. Apart from the experimental pieces in Lost in the Funhouse (1968), his best-known works are the novels The Floating Opera (1956), The End of the Road (1958), The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), Giles Goat-Boy (1966), and The Tidewater Tales (1987), most of which play with and parody traditional narrative forms, combining philosophical depth with biting satire and boisterous, often bawdy humour. In 2001 he published the experimental novel Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative, which was not well received

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Jr. John Simmons Barth

orig. John Simmons Barth, Jr. born May 27, 1930, Cambridge, Md., U.S. U.S. writer. Barth grew up on Maryland's eastern shore, the locale of much of his writing, and from 1953 he taught principally at Johns Hopkins University. Apart from the experimental pieces in Lost in the Funhouse (1968), his best-known works are the novels The Floating Opera (1956), The End of the Road (1958), The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), Giles Goat-Boy (1966), and The Tidewater Tales (1987), most of which play with and parody traditional narrative forms, combining philosophical depth with biting satire and boisterous, often bawdy humour. In 2001 he published the experimental novel Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative, which was not well received

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John Barth

Turkish pronunciation

cän bärth

Pronunciation

/ˈʤän ˈbärᴛʜ/ /ˈʤɑːn ˈbɑːrθ/