Barth, John

My dissertation examines ways Cold War fiction engages the politics and sociology of reading in post-World War II America. Juxtaposing texts by Alfred Hitchcock, J. D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, and John Barth with scores of post-war political, academic, and popular “how to read”…

This study explores John Barth's use of framing as a narrative-generating strategy. Barth uses the frame-tale technique precisely because it allows him to tell tales endlessly. The most essential quality of this ancient narrative convention is the perpetuation of narrative. Fram…

This dissertation contends that the act of truthfully speaking of God, theology, is a tertiary medium of God's revelation. It is thus a thesis both about God, and the discipline of theology formally and materially. Theology is reverberation of God's revelation, his own knowledge…

This study is a comparative analysis of four contemporary authors who have claimed The Thousand and One Nights as their favorite text: Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, John Barth, and Salman Rushdie. These authors also share an interest in the process of narrativity and concern…