The Sot-Weed Factor [FROM LIBRARY OF FILM COMPOSER DAVID RAKSIN] Barth, John. Published by Grosset Dunlap Universal Library, New York, Seller: Counterpane Books, Frazier Park, CA, U.S.A. Contact seller. They are straightforward tales; as Barth later remarked, they "didn't know they were novels." The Sot-Weed Factor, Barth's next novel, is an page mock epic of the colonization of Maryland based on the life of an actual poet, Ebenezer Cooke, who wrote a poem of the same title/5. I should point out that Barth based his novel on a real person, Ebenezer Cooke, who, in fact, did write a poem entitled 'The Sot-Weed Factor,' which was published in London in The rest is all Barth. THE SOT-WEED FACTOR is very funny, very inventive, and deserved of its 'modern classic' status/5(99).
I should point out that Barth based his novel on a real person, Ebenezer Cooke, who, in fact, did write a poem entitled 'The Sot-Weed Factor,' which was published in London in The rest is all Barth. THE SOT-WEED FACTOR is very funny, very inventive, and deserved of its 'modern classic' status. THE SOT- WEED FACTOR Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. THE SOT- WEED FACTOR by JOHN BARTH. Publication date Publisher DOUBLEDAY COMPANY, INC Collection universallibrary Contributor Universal Digital Library Language English. John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor A sot-weed factor is a tobacco merchant, if you did not know, and this novel is about an eighteenth century American tobacco merchant. Pomo it certainly is but it is also a very funny pastiche of the eighteen century British novel - Smollett (who was Scottish, not English), Sterne (who was Irish), Fielding and co.
The Sot-Weed Factor [FROM LIBRARY OF FILM COMPOSER DAVID RAKSIN] Barth, John. Published by Grosset Dunlap Universal Library, New York, Seller: Counterpane Books, Frazier Park, CA, U.S.A. Contact seller. The Sot-Weed Factor is a novel by John Barth that satirizes picaresque novels such as Tristram Shandy and Tom Jones. ("Sot-weed" is an old term for the tobacco plant. A "factor" is a middleman who buys something to resell it.) TIME included the novel in its TIME Best English-language Novels from to contemporary novel, The Sot-Weed Factor, by John Barth. The real Ebenezer Cook was born probably in London, probably about He apparently had experiences similar to those of the poem's protagonist. He seems to have traveled to Maryland, where he had inherited property and to have sold it there in
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