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habitual construction of imagination

Andre, you are my nemesis.

iambarr | November 22, 2009

Barth – “Lost in the Funhouse” The Assignment: Show how it operates as metafiction The significant way Barth experiments with familiar narrative conventions to comment on the story-writing process. How do- -structure -point of view -style operate as vehicles for what Barth wants to communicate about the world? Do they comment on or critique aspects [...]

Lost in the Funhouse Outline

iambarr | November 21, 2009

Outline I. Introduction A. Define terms – metafiction (fiction about fiction), postmodernism (a reworking or subversion of past conventions) B. Present major arguments C. State thesis – In writing a story about the writing of a story, Barth has created a classic work of metafiction. II. Definition and defiance of convention – Barth defines many [...]

Evolution of a paper – a husk of a shell of kernal of an idea

iambarr | November 21, 2009

Barth – “Lost in the Funhouse” The Assignment: Show how it operates as metafiction The significant way Barth experiments with familiar narrative conventions to comment on the story-writing process. How do- -structure -point of view -style operate as vehicles for what Barth wants to communicate about the world? Do they comment on or critique aspects [...]