ABSTRACT
Press, 1992. Self-consciously styling himself a postmodern novelist, John Barth has sought to test
the very structures and limits of conventional literary articulation. Consequently, casting around for an appropriate form of explanation and understanding, the early criticism of Earth’s writings took its critical discourse from the terminology of Barth’s own critical writings. However, the entry of poststructuralist thought into literary-critical discourse has provided a “postmodern” conceptual apparatus, which has enabled a more sophisticated articulation of Barth’s fictional experimentation.
