Lost in the funhouse, and correspondence, 1967-1974.

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Lost in the funhouse, and correspondence, 1967-1974.

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The collection contains an edited manuscript copy of Barth's short story, "Lost in the funhouse," an article about John Barth in Time (17 March 1967), copies of The Atlantic containing Barth's "The Literature of exhaustion" (August 1967) and "Lost in the funhouse" (November 1967), Edgar H. Knapp's chapter, "Lost in the Barthhouse: novelist as savior" (The Process of fiction, 1974), and letters from Barth to Knapp, Philip Young to Knapp, and a note from Alan Trachtenberg all concerning editing "Lost in the funhouse" for an anthology.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Barth, John, 1930-....

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Author. From the description of John Barth literary manuscripts, 1955-1978 (bulk 1955-1968). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070336 Biographical Note: John Barth, American author, was born in Cambridge, MD, May 27, 1930. He received his B.A. (1951) and his M.A. (1952) from The Johns Hopkins University. Barth taught at Penn State University and SUNY, Buffalo before returning to Hopkins in 1973 as professor of English and creative writing. He is now P...

Young, Philip, 1918-1991

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Philip Young came to the Pennsylvania State University in 1959 as Professor of American Literature. He wrote several critically acclaimed books: Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration, The Private Melville, Revolutionary Ladies, Hawthorne's Secret: An Untold Tale, and the posthumously published collection of essays, American Fiction, American Myth. From the description of Philip Young papers, 1930-2000. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 53101441 ...

Trachtenberg, Alan I. (Alan Israel), 1956-

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Knapp, Edgar H.

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Edgar A. Knapp served as a private in Troop E of the Rough Riders (United States. Army. Volunteer Cavalry, 1st). From the description of Edgar A. Knapp Rough Rider snapshots, between 1910-1939. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612794173 ...