The Sot-Weed Factor

Name: The Sot-Weed Factor
Author: John Barth

by John Barth

Picaresque colonial adventure parodying eighteenth-century literary conventions and history

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John Barth

John Barth was the central figure of American postmodern fiction, whose The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy deployed irony, parody, and self-conscious narrative to reinvent the novel. Lost in the Funhouse defined metafiction for a generation.

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Giles Goat-BoyMetafictional epic rewriting the Oedipus myth as university allegory
Lost in the FunhousePostmodern story cycle exploring narrative structure and text within text
ChimeraNovella pair retelling Perseus and Bellerophon myths in contemporary fragmented form
LETTERSEpistolary novel spanning four centuries of American literary and historical figures