The Friday Book
Essays and Other Nonfiction
Published on 22. January 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
281 pages
978-0-8018-5557-3 (ISBN)
Description
This nonfiction work is what Barth callls "an arrangement of essays and occaisonal lectures, some previously published, most not, most on matters literary, some not, accumulated over 30 years or so of writing, teaching and teaching writing". Barth speculates on the future of literature and the literature of the future. He looks back too upon historical fiction and fictitous history.
Reviews / Votes
"[The] pieces that make up 'The Friday Book'...have a consistent tone of warm personal enthusiasm that is often beguiling."--Walter Kendrick "Whether discussing modernism, postmodernism, semiotics, Homer, Cervantes, Borges, blue crabs or osprey nests, Barth demonstrates an enthusiasm for the life of the mind, a joy in thinking (and in expressing those thoughts) that becomes contagious. Indeed, if you've ever wondered what modernism, postmodernism, and semiotics mean, you've found the right place to learn."--'Washington Post'More details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-5557-3 (9780801855573)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
John Barth, Professor Emeritus in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, is the author of twelve works of fiction--'The Floating Opera,' 'The End of the Road,' 'The Sot-Weed Factor,' 'Giles Goat-Boy,' 'Lost in the Funhouse,' 'Chimera' (winner of the 1973 National Book Award), 'LETTERS,' 'Sabbatical', 'The Tidewater Tales' (also available in paperback from Johns Hopkins), 'The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor', 'Once upon a Time: A Floating Opera,' and 'On with the Story'--as well as another collection of essays, 'Further Fridays'. He lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore.