John barth a reading of the postmodernistic features in his novels

Abstract

Post-modernism has been a significant intellectual trend in the developed newlineworld. The trend reflects in contemporary theories, and cultural practices, newlinearchitecture, art, and literature and, in turn, reinforces major shifts in the economy, newlinesociety, art, architecture, literature, and music. The word post in postmodernism newlinerepresents a transformation from one period of style to the next. Postmodernism newlinerejected that art should seek to define for itself a domain separate from popular culture newlineand hatred of bourgeois society. It is understood that post modernistic works of art newlineeither disrupt recognition by alluding to what a particular culture represses or presents newlineculture as a continually mutating entity that is made up of a series of challenges and newlinereadjustments. Thus postmodernism is identified as a new period, style or faction that newlinesuspends the earlier one. The novel towards postmodernism was effected through newline exhaustion . The period of exhaustion produced texts that imitated older texts and newlinewhen there was a creative revival of literature that is the literature of replenishment newlinethere was creative revival of literature. newlineJohn Barth, the Maryland master artist, who coined the term Exhaustion has newlinerichly contributed to the growth of American literature. Barth s works are a creative newlineresponse to the chaos of the negative forces of high sixties . Barth came out from the newlineconfusion of the age that helped him produce novels labeled postmodernism . newlineFurther, John Barth, in his works introduced the reader into the workshop of newlinecomposition and they are also a creative response to the chaos of negative forces in a newlinewealthy and sophisticated culture that has lost its myths and values. The present newlinestudy, John Barth : A Reading of the Postmodernistic Features in his Novels is an newlineattempt to identify postmodernistic feature in his novels. newline