Intermediality and Multimodality in John Barth's 'Autobiography: A Self-Recorded Fiction' (1968)

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Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: Pass with distinction, Uppsala University (English Department), course: MA Hauptseminar: Recent Developments in Literary Studies, language: English, abstract: This essay analyses John Barths short story "AUTOBIOGRAPHY: A Self-Recorded Fiction, which was published inf the short story collection Lost in the Funhouse in 1968. The story is examined from the perspective of an intermediality / multimodality scholar. Among other things, the essay discusses the employment of several media / modes within the story and reveals limits inherent to the theories of intermediality and multimodality, pointing to the concept of heteromediality as a possible alternative.

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