In the following essay Knapp examines Barth's story in light of its use of "myth, masque, cinema, and symposium." Nor is there singing school but studying Monuments of its own magnificence —W. B. Yeats
After John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse" appeared in The Atlantic of November, 1967, common men had a taste of terror, the mad felt a twinge of sympathy, and a faint and tweedy generation of English professors found themselves in the mirror maze of a new fiction.
Warning. You cannot read "Lost in the Funhouse" simply for the fun of it. Read it three times: once, to get knocked off your feet; again to regain your balance; and then to be knocked down again. Perhaps a fourth time . . . for the fun of it.
The story adheres to the archetypal.....
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