American history as a history of self-making: John Barth's Sot-Weed Factor

Christopher Conti

American history as a history of self-making: John Barth's Sot-Weed Factor

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

The rewriting of American history in Sot-Weed culminates the existentialist phase of Barth's thinking about the role of myth in disenchanted society, and the partial attempt to write a new secular myth in accord with the sceptical insights of the philosophical tradition that foster the acceptance of chance as "worthy of determining our fate".

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Remaking Literary History
Editors	Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan
Place of Publication	UK
Publisher	Cambridge Scholars
Chapter	4
Pages	52-61
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781443814249
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

John Barth
postmodernism (literature)

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American history as a history of self-making: John Barth's Sot-Weed Factor

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