Lost in the Funhouse

by John Barth

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Lost in the Funhouse Questions and Answers

Which elements of postmodernism can be found in "Lost in the Funhouse"?

How does John Barth use humor in Lost in the Funhouse?

Why and how does John Barth use parody in Lost in the Funhouse?

Find and discuss postmodernist features in "Lost in the Funhouse." Use the following words/phrases: mistrust of authority, foregrounding, chronology, metaphor, fragmentation, imagery, intertextuality, metafiction, point of view/focalization, narrative, breaking genres, stream of consciousness, playful disregard for meaning, blurry line between fiction and reality.

What is the function of parody and metafiction in John Barth's postmodern novel Lost in the Funhouse?

What does Ambrose imagine his father saying to him about people on Boardwalk in “Lost in the Funhouse”?

What were some examples of Ambrose's views of romance and sex in the story "Lost in the Funhouse"?

How does Barth employ metafiction to examine ordinary life?

These are my tasks...Anything would be useful... 1. Summarize each story and apply Barth’s “The Literature of Exhaustion”. 2. Explore the metaphors of birth, growth and maturation in the context of the “Night-Sea Journey”. Can you draw any correlation between human creation and creative writing (textual and biological)? 3.  Explain the playfulness of “Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction” and auto-referentiality in the postmodern text. Observe the narrator’s quest for order and control. How do you feel in the reader’s role? The act of story-telling: Is there faith in it?

What are examples of humor in the stories "Night Sea Journey" and "Petition"? Please explain why John Barth uses these elements.

How is schizophrenia described in relation to Lost in the Funhouse? What is the relevance of love and narration in the book? I need two examples please. Please help me it is so urgent!

To what extent does John Barth depict Ambrose as a character type in “Lost In The Funhouse”?