A frame narrative in this novel recounts the story of a man who became chief via winning an eating contest and an eggplant aphrodisiac recipe given to him by John Smith. For 10 points each.
[10h] Name this novel centered on a fictional version of Ebenezer Cooke commissioned to write a poem about colonial Maryland.
ANSWER: The Sot-Weed Factor
[10e] John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor was his first book in this literary movement, which he frequently worked in. This literary movement often uses metafiction and unreliable narration.
ANSWER: postmodernism
[10m] The Sot-Weed Factor was a parody of picaresque novels such as Tom Jones and this novel about a character whose obsessions are called “hobby-horses.” That titular character of this novel has a flat nose crushed from birth.
ANSWER: Tristram Shandy [or The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman]
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