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 |
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| 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)