Further Fridays : essays, lectures, and other nonfiction, 1984-94 / John Barth.
On Fridays, John Barth abandons life in the city and heads for his Chesapeake Bay retreat, where he duly exchanges his weekday fiction muse for a nonfiction one. Fridays have become a liberating time, Barth says, to "discover what I thought about some subject or other, before reconfronting the...
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Table of Contents:
- Teacher
- Can it be taught?
- The Spanish connection
- The limits of imagination
- A few words about minimalism
- It's a long story : Maximalism reconsidered
- It's a short story
- It goes without saying
- Postmodernism revisited
- A body of words
- Very like an elephant : reality versus realism
- "Still farther south" : some notes on Poe's Pym
- Kenosis : "I think it's trying to tell us something"
- Borges and I : a mini-memoir
- Once upon a time : storytelling explained
- Goose art, or, The aesthetic ecology of Chesapeake Bay
- "Jack and Jill" : an exegetical aria
- Browsing
- Ad lib libraries and the coastline measurement problem : a reminiscence
- Four forewords: The floating opera and the end of the road ; The sot-weed factor ; Giles goat-boy ; Lost in the farmhouse
- 4 1/2 lectures : the Stuttgart seminars on postmodernism, chaos theory, and the romantic arabesque: 1. PM/CT/RA : an underview ; 2 . Postmodernism visited: a professional novelist's amateur review ; 3. The arabesque ; 4. Chaos theory : postmod science, literary model ; 4 1/2. PM/CT/RA : "So what?" or "Ah, so!"?
- Inconclusion : the novel in the next century.