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14) Literary innovations in American post-war fiction.
The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain characteristics of post-World War II literature (relying heavily, for example, on fragmentation, paradox, questionable narrators, etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature. Writers offers provocative readings of adolescence which highlight issues of gender, regionality and ethnicity, creating a valuable and stimulating resource for anyone interested in postwar American fiction.
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John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernism and metafictive quality of his work.
The short story collection Lost in house and the novella collection Chimera, the latter for which Barth received the National Book Award are even more metafictional han their two predecessors, foregrounding the writing process and presenting achievements such as a seven-deep nested quotation. In Letters Barth and the characters of his first six books interact.
While writing these books, Barth was also pondering and discussing the theoretical problems of fiction writing, most notably in an essay, "The Literature of Exhaustion" (first printed in The Atlantic, 1967), that was widely considered to be a statement of " the death of the novel" (compare with Rolands Barth's "The Death of the Author"). Barth has since insisted that he was merely making clear that a particular stage in history was passing, and pointing to possible directions from there. He later (1980) wrote a follow-up essay, "The Literature of Replenishment", to clarify the point.
Barth's fiction continues to maintain a precarious balance between postmodern self-consciousness and wordplay on the one hand, and the sympathetic characterisation and "page-turning" plotting commonly associated with more traditional genres and subgenres of classic and contemporary storytelling.
FICTION- is any form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s. In contrast to this is non- fictions which deals exclusively in factual events (e.g.: biographies, histories).
Non-fiction can also be written about fiction, giving information about these other works.
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