PROSE IN PERFORMANCE

Throughout his career, John Barth has been interested in the ways that fiction—a genre that for many centuries was confined to the printed page—is altered or enhanced by contact with non-print technologies, old and new. His collection Lost in the Funhouse is subtitled Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice, for example, which spells out a range of media and presentation possibilities. His many annotated reading scripts, like the script for his reading of the story “Menelaiad” displayed here, demonstrate his consideration for how a given work should be performed.