Word: menelaiad
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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Then there is Autobiography, which is meant for monophonic tape and a "visible but silent author." Menelaiad, on the other hand, "depends for clarity on the reader's eye and may be said to have been composed for 'printed voice,' " which may or may not mean that it is to be read aloud-silently...
Another bit of Barth cunning is to turn daily life into mythology while turning mythology into domestic comedy. Ambrose His Mark, Water-Message and the title story, Lost in the Funhouse, contain elements of autobiography, though the characters and events have an Olympian quality. Menelaiad and Anonymiad, bawdy colloquializations of the Aeneid, are reminiscent of Barth's historical burlesque The Sot-Weed Factor...
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