This paper examines John Barth’s novel The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) as an emblem of early American postmodernism with specific focus on its metafictional strategies. Written as a seventeenth-century pastiche, the novel follows and satirizes the naïve poet Ebenezer Cooke and his blind devotion to literary classics during his voyage from Eng...

By Adisa Ahmetspahić