Abstract
The novelist John Barth drew the rich fund of seafaring metaphors in his work from a carefree upbringing in Cambridge, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the tidewater setting of virtually all his work. But it was in the library stacks at Johns Hopkins University, absorbed in the great Eastern tale collections like A Thousand and One Nights and The Ocean of Story, where Barth learned to combine a love of seafaring and storytelling by setting a course that would one day make him a pioneer of postmodern fiction.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context |
| Editors | Linda De Roche |
| Place of Publication | U.S. |
| Publisher | ABC-CLIO |
| Pages | 113-116 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781440853593 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781440853586 |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |