A funhouse of reading: ontological foregrounding
in John Barth’s “Lost in the Funhouse”

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A funhouse of reading: ontological foregrounding in John Barth’s “Lost in the Funhouse”

John Barth‟s “Lost in the Funhouse” is a prime example of a postmodernist short fiction. The poetics of the work is mainly concerned with questions of ontology and frequently seeks to foreground this notion in different ways so much so that the reader gets lost in a funhouse of reading. Accordingly,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Madahiian, Masoud
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit UKM 2015
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8270/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8270/1/5558-22055-1-PB.pdf

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