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<p>During the sixties and seventies, the fictional "reinventions" of john Barth, along with his misread and influential essay 'The Literature of Exhaustion," established the comic novelist as a leading practitioner and theorist of what was then coming to be called postmodern literature. In more recent years, however, Barth's reputation has been called into question within the ongoing critical debate over the criterion of "originality" and the status of literary repetition, imitation, and parody. In her spirited defense of Barth, Patricia Tobin employs Harold Bloom's theory of belatedness to confront and explode this issue.<br><br>For Bloom, the later the artist the greater the burden of the past against which he must rebel and the more hopeless his task. However, Tobin argues Barth revels in his belatedness and celebrates the opportunity to survey a rich literary past and to bring back to life its dead forms, genres, and styles by completing, fulfilling, and "exhausting" them. Not a retrospective and negative anxiety of influence, then, but a wholly <i>prospective</i> and <i>positive</i> anxiety of continuance has propelled Barth through a distinguished career.<br><br>Throughout, T

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Author

Tobin, Patricia

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781512808032

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Religion, Religious Studies