Everything you need to understand or teach The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth.
The Sot-Weed Factor returns to Barth's earlier exploration of the existentialist notions of action, choice, and value.
Whereas his earlier fiction considered these questions in a contemporary context, Barth's third novel introduces an existential perspective into late-seventeenth-century colonial America.
Throughout the novel, he suggests that the absence of any absolute order and the necessity of confronting the imperative to act is a persistent human dilemma; in addition, he suggests...
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