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The Literature of Exhaustion is an influential 1967 essay by the American novelist John Barth, which is sometimes considered to be the manifesto of postmodernism.
The essay was highly influential,[1] and for some, controversial.[2] It depicted Literary realism as a "used up" tradition; Barth's description of his own work, which many though that nailed a core trait of postmodernism, is "novels which imitate the form of a novel, by an author who imitates the role of Author".
Barth argued that a particular stage in history was passing, and pointed to possible directions from there. In 1980, he wrote a follow-up essay, The Literature of Replenishment.
Publications
Barth first delivered it in 1967 as a lecture in a Peters Rushton Seminars held at the University of Virginia;[3] then it was first printed in The Atlantic in the same year; since then has been reprinted several times, and included in Barth's non-fiction collection The Friday Book (1984).
References
- ^ [1] in Contemporary Literature, 2000
- ^ "The Literature of Exhaustion". Elab.eserver.org. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
- ^ John Barth (1984) intro to The Literature of Exhaustion, in The Friday Book.