Chimera Myth Analysis

The present paper concentrates on the portrayal of post modern myth in John Barth’s Chimera. It aims to exhibit how the writer recycled myth in his creation through the reconstruction of this concept, consisting importantly in demythologization, revealing its central ridiculous situation and literary reprocessing. In order to understand the multi facet application of myths in Chimera, the article analyzes the subject from different aspects. Subsequently offering some preliminary remarks concerning the traditional history and meaning of myth, the first part of the article turns on to tracing Barth’s partiality as well as argumentative with distinct philosophical views and literary theories as far as the sort of myth is discussed. The second

The word ‘Myth' signifies any story or plot, whether true or false. Most of the myths involve rituals – prescribed forms of sacred ceremonial but social anthropologists disagree as to rituals generated myths or myths generated rituals. if the central character is a man rather than a supernatural being, the story is not called myth but legend. A mythology in which no longer believes in any religion. The word has also explained to signify the supernatural tales which are intentionally used by their authors. Many writers have also stated that fuse mythology, whether heredity or made up is important to literature. jams Joyce's Ulysses, Eliot's The Waste Land, O Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor and Chimera and many other authors have thoughtfully produced their works in the form of ancient myths, Now Myth is one of the most famous terms in contemporary literature, In addition to myth, is firmly imagined place in which a work of art appears in Faulkner's myth of yoknapatawpha country' and ‘the mythical worlds of Moby

Most often focused at disturbance and dissolution of narrative formula, literary critics aim to approach Barthian depiction of myths in a somewhat unique manner. Barth's mythopoeia involves holistic approach, formally, co-existences of binaries and which encircles more precise post-modern to be more precise which encircles, co-existences of binaries and inappropriate. Therefore in this chapter will analyze to show how John Barth delivers and regenerate myth in his writing by controverting this ‘ Bizarre' and unrealistic, as Robert Graves puts it gently in his prologue to The Greek Myths (1992:11) Since Barth's close study incarnated by Genie in Dunyazad in Chimera. This fiction states straightly while annotating on stories:" the quality of art, which if it could not …save us the revulsion of living and dying, at least retained, reviewed, spread out and fertilized our spirits along the way".(Chimera, 17)

In order to understand the multi-access of mythology in John Barth's Chimera will scrutinize this subject from distinguished perspectives. This chapter is based on the author's kinship as well as controversy with the typical philosophical tendency and literary theories, which can be described in Chimera. The aim of the section is to reveal both external source of Barthian myth and its internal references within the fiction. The meaning