its been a while since i've read it, but keep in mind the bees belong to grandpa, and, like night see journey, only one gets through to sting mom (on the ...
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agrimorfee
Jan 29, 2007 3:21 pm
... JB at one point in Tidewater Tales postulates a notion that one's father is actually their grandfather--if one also buys the notion that a father's sperm...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Feb 9, 2007 5:25 pm
"John Barth, from I've Been Told: A Story's Story (4:37) The author of Where Three Roads Meet and Lost in the Funhouse reads from his contribution to...
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Elena Tarnarutskaya
etarnarutskaya
Feb 24, 2007 4:38 pm
I'm going back to Lost in the Funhouse that's full od dubble and triple meanings. Does it seem possible for you to look at it as a novel, with the beginning...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Feb 24, 2007 8:38 pm
... I'd hesitate to call it a novel, although I do try to perceive (with limited success or insight, I must admit) Barth's declared intention that it be...
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agrimorfee
Feb 27, 2007 10:25 pm
... triple meanings. ... mythological proto-narration? ... Are you referring to just "Lost In the Funhouse" and "Ambrose His Mark"? I tend to think that both...
I'd hesitate to call it a novel, although I do try to perceive (with limited success or insight, I must admit) Barth's declared intention that it be received...
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etarnarutskaya
Mar 4, 2007 8:44 am
... and ... there are about 10 stories more. But the seeds of the autobiografical novel are very talented. Thank you for telling me that they were used in...
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Elena Tarnarutskaya
etarnarutskaya
Mar 7, 2007 5:08 pm
(Sorry for sending empty messages, I must have pushed wrong buttons, hoping this one is being sent) I see mythological proto-narration as narrative patterns...
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agrimorfee
Mar 9, 2007 6:38 pm
... <etarnarutskaya@...> wrote: By the way,how do you look at the ... I usually enjoy these situations. Stephen King, for example, has had a habit of...
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Elena Tarnarutskaya
etarnarutskaya
Mar 10, 2007 9:27 am
Dear Mehdy How do you like "The End of the Road" so far? What do you think of the doctor who treats the protagonist with myths? What have you learnt from the...
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M. Sedaghat Payam
woolf_543
Mar 10, 2007 2:00 pm
Dear Elena As a matter of fact there has not been a translation of John Barth in Persian yet, and my collection of Barth's stories of Barth will be the first...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Mar 13, 2007 4:27 pm
"[David] Morrell said in an interview, the idea about the novel's structure came from John Barth, the novelist who once said that the most ancient sports, the...
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James McKeogh
jhmckeogh
Mar 13, 2007 5:37 pm
Morrell was also a Penn State Grad... i believe he was a student of Barth's... We Are... ... ...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Mar 18, 2007 12:26 am
Hi folks, Have a listen. You can save to your machines, but these links will expire in seven days, per the transmission site I'm using. Regards, Mark ... ...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Mar 20, 2007 11:10 pm
... Correction: It appears it's actually called "The Judge's Jokes." http://www.theamericanscholar.org/currentissue2.html...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Mar 20, 2007 11:20 pm
In "My Father's Jokes," John Barth, the acclaimed novelist, remembers his father, the popular candy-store proprietor, orphan's court chief judge, and...
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Blair Mahoney
blairrm
Mar 21, 2007 12:06 pm
Thanks for the audio files Mark. They're fantastic. I'd never heard any of JB's spoken performances before......
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Glenn Gamblin
crimhedd2
Mar 21, 2007 1:50 pm
I concur. The slight mid-Atlantic accent (more prevalent in these recordings than I recall from a more recent reading I attended - say, 1990's) adds to the...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Mar 27, 2007 4:59 am
I think I got like a "yes" or an "okay, sure," or maybe a "thank *you*" or some other functional equivalent out of him when I managed, in my star-struckitude...
... I got pretty much the same from Stephen King (but I wasn't expecting a hug, either! ;)) It must be that stereotypical, but understandable, Yankee...
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James McKeogh
jhmckeogh
Apr 7, 2007 9:33 pm
This isn't a barth themed email, but i figured this would be a good place to field my question. Does anyone know which trancendentalist wrote about the ...
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James McKeogh
jhmckeogh
Apr 7, 2007 9:34 pm
This isn't a barth themed email, but i figured this would be a good place to field my question. Does anyone know which trancendentalist wrote about the ...
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Rick Slade
louisjordan_50
Apr 8, 2007 5:58 pm
This comes closest - Emerson's Daemonic Love http://www.online-literature.com/emerson/599/ Close, close to men, Like undulating layer of air, Right above their...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Apr 9, 2007 3:42 pm
Here's a nice little diversion: a decent-sized excerpt from 'Teacher' (Further Fridays). ...
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sponge_bob4988
Apr 26, 2007 4:52 pm
Hi, I'm a new member in this group and I'm currently working on a essay about identity in The Floating Opera. Any idea would be very welcome! Thank you...
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Mark Brawner
markbrawner
Apr 26, 2007 5:53 pm
... So what's your general thrust so far?...
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annalina
sponge_bob4988
Apr 28, 2007 2:29 pm
... For the moment, I've none. I mean, I've not found the problematics yet. I am looking for ideas, and I'll organize them later. For me, Todd Andrews suffers...
