John Barth's “Giles goat-boy, or, the revised new syllabus” as an example of the new prose

Abstract

John Bart's “Giles Goat-Boy, or, The Revised New Syllabus”, plays an important role inJohn Bart's “Giles Goat-Boy, or, The Revised New Syllabus”, plays an important role in the author's creative activity. The work is one of the most important examples of the postmodernist metafiction of the “black humor” literary movement. The work is written on the traditions of “University novels” formed in the 1950s. J.Bart parodies the results of technical civilization, considering the university as the smallest model of the world, where the main events take place in the work. The influence of Joseph Campbell's “A Thousand-Face Hero” can be clearly seen in the novel.
Referring to the mythological plot and motifs, the writer described the moral and psychological aspects of the hero's journey and the changes that took place in society after the Second World War within the intertexts. “Giles Goat-Boy, or, The Revised New Syllabus” solves Bart's literary and aesthetic ideas on an artistic level.

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