A funhouse of reading: ontological foregrounding in John Barth’s “Lost in the Funhouse”
John Barth‟s “Lost in the Funhouse” is a prime example of a postmodernist short fiction. The poetics of the work is mainly concerned with questions of ontology and frequently seeks to foreground this notion in different ways so much so that the reader gets lost in a funhouse of reading. Accordingly,...
Main Author: | Madahiian, Masoud |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Penerbit UKM
2015
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8270/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8270/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8270/1/5558-22055-1-PB.pdf |
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